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

[silverwizard@convenient.email]

@darth I keep linux for games, so my gaming computer is linux, but everything else is BSD unless there is a constraint disallowing BSD

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@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.

[russsharek@mastodon.art]

@thedaemon @darth

do your tablets support tilt and pressure on freebsd?

[thedaemon@snac.9front.club]

CC: @darth@silversword.online I don't know about tilt as I don't know if I've ever used it or have it, but yes on pressure. It uses same drivers as Linux.

[izder456@fe.disroot.org]

@darth@silversword.online I've been daily driving OpenBSD on a desktop, various laptops, and a few headless sbc server-like devices for the past 3 years.

[glassblowerscat@wandering.shop]

@darth
Technically, MacOS is a BSD OS .

@miah

[brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org]

@darth@silversword.online openbsd

[georgedaniel@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@darth #freebsd primary OS since 3 years (previous was linux)

[russsharek@mastodon.art]

@thedaemon @darth

I may have to poke at that. Thanks.

[taf@bsd.network]

@darth @stefano

Servers: OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Laptops: MacOS and OpenBSD
Gaming: Arch Linux

I prefer OpenBSD but will use the tool best suited for the job at hand.

[recoveredexpert@mastodon.social]

@darth Maybe it‘s worth adding that you mean „Desktop“ (or Laptop) when you‘re talking about „daily driver“.

I might be weird, but my „daily driving“ in OS terms involves a lot more than my Desktop OS. There‘s my FreeBSD router and my home server doing a lot of the important parts enabling my „daily driving“.

That‘s just at home, not counting (my own hardware) in datacenters.
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[recoveredexpert@mastodon.social]

@darth When all I needed was a terminal and a basic browser I also had FreeBSD running on my desktop since FreeBSD 1.1-RELEASE. As my needs grew, I started playing w/ MacOS 10.2 and made it my primary desktop around 10.3. I would prefer FreeBSD or any BSD, but that‘s not possible and probably won‘t for a while. Util that changes, I‘m on MacOS as it has enough BSD‘isms under the hood in terminal I when I can‘t run an actual BSD to do *nix stuff. That helps me stay (somewhat) somewhat sane.
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[js@x0r.be]

@darth #OpenBSD since 2014, current on my desktop, servers are running the recent release.

[filis@mastodon.social]

@darth using FreeBSD on servers since about 2000, daily driving it on laptop and desktop since about 2017

[daemonhunter@billboard.bsd.cafe]

@darth@silversword.online My main workstation OS is MacOS. I don't see any other OS substituting my Logic Pro X setup.
My main server OS is FreeBSD. Down the road, I plan to pick up a dedicated laptop specifically for running local LLMs.

[dch@bsd.network]

@yrabbit systemd’s introduction and the problems it caused at the time was why I switched off Ubuntu at the time too @darth

[evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@darth My main laptop, where I doing almost all computing now, running #FreeBSD for (checks notes) 6 years.

For homelab server(s) I'm using #NetBSD because it runs everywhere

[geezabiscuit@snac.theunwashed.org]

@darth@silversword.online I'm been using FreeBSD for my home lab and OpenBSD on my laptop for years now.

[jezcaudle@infosec.exchange]

@outofcreativity @darth Same.

[daemonhunter@billboard.bsd.cafe]

@darth@silversword.online The only preference I have is tokens/s and it must be on FreeBSD.