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There was this post recently about OpenBSD on the Lenovo X1 Carbon https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7 https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7 . From what I read OpenBSD c

There was this post recently about OpenBSD on the Lenovo X1 Carbon https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7 https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7 . From what I read OpenBSD can be better supported than FreeBSD on laptops, especially the Thinkpads as that's what a lot of OpenBSD devs used.

messe 7y ago
OpenBSD tends to have nicer defaults. On laptops the volume and brightness keys work everywhere out of the box, including on the console, without needing to be configured, unlike on FreeBSD, NetBSD, (and Linux, where they only work on X11) FreeBSD has a couple more drivers for wireless cards than OpenBSD, and has some GPL drivers that you can optionally compile in for even wider support (bwn has optional GPL components for example). But for most hardware, the support will be very similar (aside from bluetooth, which OpenBSD got rid of because their code was poor and unmaintained—nobody's gotten around to writing another bluetooth stack yet) I prefer OpenBSD, but FreeBSD has a lot going for it too with Jails, ZFS, support for NVIDIA cards, Wayland.
- Xylakant 7y ago
  > (and Linux, where they only work on X11 Volume and Brightness keys have always worked fine on my fedora even after they defaulted to wayland.
  - cosarara 7y ago
    I think he was referring to the TTYs, without wayland in mind.
    - messe 7y ago
      Yep. I need to get out of the habit of referring to any graphical environment on a Unix as X11.
  - messe 7y ago
    You're right, I should have said "on X11/Wayland DEs".
- floatboth 7y ago
  On ThinkPads specifically, brightness on FreeBSD works in the virtual console just fine. ThinkPads handle it via the EC I think.