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Thanks. Though a knowledge worker sometimes does need to connect their laptop to a TV for collaboration and presentations. > The main problem is software that

Thanks. Though a knowledge worker sometimes does need to connect their laptop to a TV for collaboration and presentations. > The main problem is software that is outdated, unavailable, or buggy on non-Linux platforms What kinds of applications could you not find a good solution for?

aaron_m04 10y ago
> What kinds of applications could you not find a good solution for? * LibreOffice Writer (lowriter) had an annoying bug where it would sometimes take over a second to redraw the toolbar buttons, and the editor was unavailable during that time. This happened on save, resize, or unhiding the window. * Konsole's logic to identify the name of the foreground process would occasionally go into an infinite loop and all the konsole windows would lockup and need to be kill -9'd. It can be avoided by using tmux but that's inconvenient. This is sad because it's the most featureful and user-friendly terminal emulator I know of. * No good C++ IDEs. * No support for cargo in the rust packages. * No workable virtualization. Also, if you use OpenBSD on a laptop, you'd be crazy not to use GNOME 3 in my opinion. Support for the other DEs are not on par.
- hackuser 10y ago
  Thanks for the tips; that's very helpful > * No workable virtualization. For those interested, they are working on it AFAIK. Look up vmm/vmd.
- aaron_m04 10y ago
  I forgot another one: * No Atom editor (no binary package, and I went through hell trying to compile from source but was unsuccessful).
- clarry 10y ago
  I don't think it's crazy at all to stick with the fine WMs that ship with OpenBSD. Such as cwm. It's well supported.
- bigato 10y ago
  dwm works just fine