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One thing I like about OpenBSD as a desktop is that it's extremely focused. Yeah, it's not a good system for playing games, but neither is the laptop I want to

One thing I like about OpenBSD as a desktop is that it's extremely focused. Yeah, it's not a good system for playing games, but neither is the laptop I want to run it on. Yeah, there aren't a lot of wifi chips that it supports, but when a wifi chipset works, it just works. None of that Linux ``yeah it kind of works, but you have to jump through all these hoops...'' nonsense. It either works, or it doesn't. Yes, there are many things you can't do on an OpenBSD system, but those are things you wouldn't really want to do on an OpenBSD system anyway.

anthk 5y ago
On wireless: /etc/hostname.foobar lladdr random join ESSID wpakey blahblahb inet autoconf inet6 autoconf That's it.
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- fartcannon 5y ago
  It's beautiful because it's not only simple, but you get the understand more of what's going on.
Koshkin 5y ago
> It either works, or it doesn't. Sounds like that 50/50 joke (about the likelihood of bumping into a dinosaur in the street).
dilippkumar 5y ago
One thing about OpenBSD that impressed me is that whatever is supported is supported correctly. My go to example is my laptop’s keyboard backlight works exactly as expected from tty terminals. I’m willing to limit my hardware options to the small subset that works with OpenBSD in return for having an OS that I can trust. Fortunately, this small subset includes the X1 Carbon thinkpads which are really nice. I’m experimenting living with a combination of iPad + openBSD thinkpad - iPad for things like Netflix and Zoom where the business isn’t interested in supporting openBSD, and my laptop for everything else. PS: Bluetooth is a terrible protocol and should be nuked from orbit out of existence. None of my 5 bluetooth headphones (from different vendors and different price ranges) can figure out which device I was last playing from, my car repeatedly steals my bluetooth audio and starts playing music without my consent every single time, audio stops streaming randomly despite my phone/iPad thinking that they are connected and continuing to play - I can rant for a long time. I genuinely respect openBSD developers for deleting the bluetooth stack to improve the OS quality.
- Melatonic 5y ago
  Never considered a BSD general desktop use OS but you are really making me consider installing it on my old Thinkpad T420 which is still going strong and upgraded quite a bit.

anthk 5y ago

On wireless: /etc/hostname.foobar lladdr random join ESSID wpakey blahblahb inet autoconf inet6 autoconf That's it.

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fartcannon 5y ago
It's beautiful because it's not only simple, but you get the understand more of what's going on.

Koshkin 5y ago

> It either works, or it doesn't. Sounds like that 50/50 joke (about the likelihood of bumping into a dinosaur in the street).

dilippkumar 5y ago

One thing about OpenBSD that impressed me is that whatever is supported is supported correctly. My go to example is my laptop’s keyboard backlight works exactly as expected from tty terminals. I’m willing to limit my hardware options to the small subset that works with OpenBSD in return for having an OS that I can trust. Fortunately, this small subset includes the X1 Carbon thinkpads which are really nice. I’m experimenting living with a combination of iPad + openBSD thinkpad - iPad for things like Netflix and Zoom where the business isn’t interested in supporting openBSD, and my laptop for everything else. PS: Bluetooth is a terrible protocol and should be nuked from orbit out of existence. None of my 5 bluetooth headphones (from different vendors and different price ranges) can figure out which device I was last playing from, my car repeatedly steals my bluetooth audio and starts playing music without my consent every single time, audio stops streaming randomly despite my phone/iPad thinking that they are connected and continuing to play - I can rant for a long time. I genuinely respect openBSD developers for deleting the bluetooth stack to improve the OS quality.

Melatonic 5y ago
Never considered a BSD general desktop use OS but you are really making me consider installing it on my old Thinkpad T420 which is still going strong and upgraded quite a bit.