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Thinkpads are a nice fit for OpenBSD if they are not too recent. Somehow, OpenBSD on a 2012 x220 has all the energy saving features, suspend abilities, media b
by jeromenerf 9y ago
Thinkpads are a nice fit for OpenBSD if they are not too recent.
Somehow, OpenBSD on a 2012 x220 has all the energy saving features, suspend abilities, media buttons actions, etc you could hope for in the base system, without a full desktop environment.
I find this simplicity quite relaxing compared to linux, where you would have to install either a full DE or a bunch of not-so-well-integrated softwares (acpid, tlp, powertop, ...) to have your machine just-working with a simple terms+browser+tilingwm setup.
On the other hand, browser performance is not as great, virtualization, docker, USB automount and wifi roaming aren't really there. It doesn't make a difference for me though.
- ue_ 9y agoWhat about mounting devices that use common filesystems? This is probably one of my biggest gripes with obsd. Mounting a regular msdos for read/write ought to work, but many times it just doesn't. There's no ext4 read/write support at all, etc. If I knew anything about filesystems at all I think I'd volunteer to get it done, it seems like a pressing issue that nobody seems to care about much. I'd rather be able to mount as many things as GNU/Linux can before even thinking about USB automount...
- rjsw 9y agoMost people running OpenBSD (or any other BSD) probably don't come across many devices that have been formatted as ext4. Mounting msdos filesystems works for me on NetBSD, maybe the OpenBSD folks could copy some code.
- jeromenerf 9y agoYou can mount ext4 readonly, depending on the feature used at creation, but you are right, there aren't so many filesystems available for RW. There are many things missing in obsd, but overall, I find the experience on a thinkpad relaxing enough to be worth it.