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>For the battery life, you certainly gonna need some tuning, as it's not a config priority by default, but generally (on mainstream hardware) you should be able
by na85 6y ago
>For the battery life, you certainly gonna need some tuning, as it's not a config priority by default, but generally (on mainstream hardware) you should be able to reach at least 80%-sh battery life comparing to Linux in OpenBSD, and comparable to Linux in FreeBSD
Yeah, see, that's unacceptable to me in a laptop.
I have a small pcengines apu2 running openbsd but I don't enjoy tinkering with it. I find it cumbersome and unwieldy. The documentation seems to be mostly "complete" but it's definitely geared at someone who already has an in-depth understanding of openbsd, and lots of fundamentals are left unsaid, which makes it difficult to learn what the "proper" way to do something is. I end up with a patchwork of hacks and it's very unsatisfying.
It took me quite a long time to figure out how to get wireguard working on that box, for instance, whereas on linux and mac it "just works" pretty much out of the box.
- loeg 6y ago> Yeah, see, that's unacceptable to me in a laptop. I think you missed the last clause here: > > comparable to Linux in FreeBSD
- na85 6y agoNo, I didn't. Linux battery life is pretty darn close to windows on my hardware, out of the box. Getting freebsd to the level of Linux only after significant tinkering just isn't a good ux. For my personal machine that's unacceptable.
- 2trill2spill 6y agoYou said above you were using OpenBSD not FreeBSD, they are completely different operating systems. Also getting the battery to last long on FreeBSD was a super simple config change, that took less than a minute to do.
- anthk 6y ago>and lots of fundamentals are left unsaid, which makes it difficult to learn what the "proper" way to do something is man afterboot