For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.
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@darth Linux has been my primary OS for 25 years, but feeling the lure of FreeBSD right now.
My new NAS runs vanilla FreeBSD, along with a Pi4 print server. Planning to migrate another server to FreeBSD, and currently experimenting with it on a laptop to get to know it better.
If all goes well and there are no major showstoppers, I'm hoping it will be the only OS on my new desktop very soon.
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@darth my daily driver is Debian GNU/Linux Stable (desktop and laptop), my home router runs OpenBSD and my NAS runs FreeBSD. My work environment is mostly based on Fedora and Rocky Linux (small HPC cluster) with a pair of pfsense boxes as redundant routers (CARP + pfsync).
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@darth #openBSD - to give some indication of how simple the installer is: I installed it myself and I'm using it as a daily driver, and I'm such a noob I haven't figured out how to mount a USB stick yet. Seems very secure indeed
I managed easily to give it a GUI, office suite, web browsers, #freeCAD, #GIMP, #nextcloud client, & #flightGear. As a computer ignoramus, I'm really impressed by how easy it is. One day I will understand the disk partitioning too 
One cheap Chinese laptop worked fine except for the trackpad, another one has to be left overnight to boot up (the text-only installer boots swiftly so I guess it's most likely an X problem) and the WiFi card isn't recognised. Moral of the story: you'll probably have an easy life, but probably get a thinkpad if you want some degree of assurance.
It's like art to me: I don't understand it the way the artists that made it do, but when I see a system as carefully documented and thoughtfully constructed to be as elegant as technology seems to permit... Well, I feel like I know it when I see it!
@doboprobodyne @darth Excellent book on filesystems in OpenBSD is by the venerable @mwl
OpenBSD Mastery by Michael W. Lucas | Open Library
OpenBSD Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, unknown edition,
Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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@darth@silversword.online Since GPUs have shitty open source support, my main machine in front of my physical self is a MacBook. GPU support is the only reason that's the case.
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@doboprobodyne @darth Excellent book on filesystems in OpenBSD is by the venerable @mwl
OpenBSD Mastery by Michael W. Lucas | Open Library
OpenBSD Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, unknown edition,
Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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@darth solid, reliable, easy to use, runs everything I need including YouTube. As DBMail maintainer I also run Ubuntu and Docker for various Linux distros though still prefer FreeBSD.
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@darth Fellow BSD enthusiast here. I've been running BSD on all my systems for over two decades now. My favorite BSD is #HardenedBSD but I'm quite naturally biased.
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@darth Just switched from Void Linux back to FreeBSD on my daily driver.
Before that, I ran OpenBSD on my laptop for like 10 years plus.
Just not happy that dxvk in wine doesn't support my onboard intel graphics on FreeBSD 15.
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@darth My main OS is FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE with XFCE4 (on a ThinkPad T480)
@Larvitz I read your blog the other day
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Both my desktop and my ThinkPad run OpenBSD.
@justine holy cow the amount of replies I got 🫣
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OpenBSD on my daily driver laptop, but my main desktop machine runs Linux.
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@RussSharek @darth obsd 'twas my daily driver from '99 until Mac OS X was released (and even then I still run it on my appliances and servers and non-Apple hardware, 25+ years now). Best OS on the planet.
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I personally don't believe that Linux will be a safe alternative in the near future at the rate the community has been getting politicized. *BSD has and likely will be a fallback for me in the worst case scenario.
@darth@silversword.online
