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is openbsd good for graphics and sound work/programming?

• pseudostem 3y ago
  Vulkan seems to be incomplete. Graphics drivers for Nvidia are a problem due to the project not accepting blobs, not signing NDAs. And today I had a problem installing matplotlib (ninja gave some error). AFAIK, tensorflow and/or python libs are a problem with *nix as well. On the good side, the system is VERY predictable.
• toast0 3y ago
  Latency sensitive? I'd guess you'd have some issues, because I've read that OpenBSD doesn't have syscalls to set cpu affinity for userspace threads/processes, which means you're subject to the kernel scheduler and might have tasks move in less than ideal ways.
• accrual 3y ago
  There is a small sub dedicated to gaming on OpenBSD: https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/ https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/ Most recent post shows an older version of Minecraft running. And OpenBSD can be a perfectly usable general desktop OS with some configuration.
• timc3 3y ago
  Not that I have ever enabled graphics or sound on my OpenBSD boxes - but I would say it’s probably not my first, second or third choice of OS for this. But my recording studio would probably bore you as I just run macOS for both graphics and sound work.