Thom, exceedingly pureJan 5
I was going to install FreeBSD on my dual-POWER9 workstation but then they blessed fashlibre by adding it to ports so now FreeBSD can go fuck itself.
Show threadIvor Hewitt
@thomholwerda my sentiments also. I did install FreeBSD over Christmas to test the waters for an opensuse alternative, but I'm going to give #OpenBSD a go next - this write up reassured me: https://douglasrumbaugh.com/post/openbsd-thinkpad-good/
I had assumed OpenBSD would be outdated and 'laptop' incompatible, but to be honest I was surprised how much hacking I needed to do to get an ancient ThinkPad working in FreeBSD anyway.
Running OpenBSD on a Thinkpad: The Good

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Show threadMorgan AldridgeJan 5
@ivor @thomholwerda Sooooo many of the #OpenBSD developers use #ThinkPad. A lot of the #ACPI changes in the kernel over the last several releases have been around better supporting sleep/wake on very new laptops, so it's clearly something the developers care about.
Show thread_mcbrideJan 9

@morgant @ivor @thomholwerda if you google for photos of FreeBSD DevSummit events you’ll see that a lot of them actually use a Mac as their daily driver. A few OpenBSD devs do as well but a lot more run Thinkpads. (Personally, I demand 3 physical mouse buttons. Don’t even like the Lenovo Trackpad, TrackPoint or die)

This is partly because OpenBSD as a project believes strongly in eating your own dogfood and minimizing dependency on cross-compilation and emulators, which are generally seen as temporary tools to get a port off the ground. Releases are compiled on bare metal.