For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.
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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
