For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.
You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?
| Actually, my main is Mac OS | |
| Actually, my main is Linux | |
| Actually, my main is Windows | |
| Indeed it is! My primary OS is BSD (reply below) |
@darth Kubuntu with OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.
Previously, for around a decade, FreeBSD.
I am in the process of making FreeBSD my primary OS. It’s replaced Debian on my raspberry pi and I have just set up some spare SATA SSDs to install to on my desktop (hoping to use ZFS1). I will be triple booting Debian, FreeBSD, and Windows (for the wife) until I feel more confident.
@darth Primary, in the sense of "desktop," is OpenBSD—it's been other things at various times, but that's what I keep coming back to. But for servers I generally use OmniOS or Debian (or Debian in an LX branded illumos zone).
And my work system is macOS because of my only two choices, better that than Windows 11.
@darth it’s complicated.
(My main BSD laptop broke physically, but I got a replacement, but the fast VM I used for building is on a machine I don’t have any more, and I refactored myself into a corner and must fix MirBSD first so atm I daily-drive an X61 with systemd-free Debian but otherwise the same setup (X without DM or DE, evilwm, xterm, screen, sirc, pine, lynx, …) I have on the BSD machine, and intend to switch back once I have sufficient time+tuits to make that usable again and update to LibreSSL, but atm I cannot even set up a. new build VM easily enough, it’s all tricky.)
@darth I'm mostly using various releases of various BSDs in VMs for cross-platform software testing.
I do have plans to experiment with FreeBSD on a couple of machines in my homelab, and to run NetBSD on a few unusual old computers. If I ever get the opportunity, I'd like to try OpenBSD on a ThinkPad X230.
@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
@darth I have only BSD computers that I use as "daily drivers": A laptop and a tower, both running FreeBSD.
In addition I run NetBSD on every computer I own that can run it, from an old 486slc2 and am Am586 via a Nintendo Wii to a couple of dual Pentium Pro machines. All but the 486slc2 are equipped with full GUI and set up so I can do Real Work(TM) from them.
I have my laptop full of BSD stickers, Once - and there are witnesses - I was in an Irish pub here in Oslo, and one of the waitresses who had walked past our table a few times stopped, looked me in the eyes and asked "Are you running BSD on that thing or are you just bragging with those stickers?"
Turns out she used to be a network engineer in Cambridge.
do your tablets support tilt and pressure on freebsd?
I may have to poke at that. Thanks. 😃
Currently using windows due to job, etc. But I have hardware sitting next to me waiting for when I have the time to install a BSD. Both desktop and laptop. Oh, and some Raspberry Pis.
Currently injured, so I can only sit for so long, and work takes up that slice of time. Got to survive first.
@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.
@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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