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If you eventually want some multimedia (3d, videos, etc), probably you won't like BSD. (opinion based on 4 year old experience) I have used OpenBSD and NetBSD

If you eventually want some multimedia (3d, videos, etc), probably you won't like BSD. (opinion based on 4 year old experience) I have used OpenBSD and NetBSD on desktop and servers. While they have their merits, as a Windows and Mac poweruser I have always felt some void. Linux is bearable from this perspective, BSDs were really far from the limited-priviliege user dynamical reconfigurability needed for a road-warrior notebook user. Linux is almost there. If you have a mostly static setup and a sufficiently outdated Hw setup, you might be able to play high resolution youtube videos. If no other audio is holding the audio device. (though last time I used NetBSD had OSSv4 in the pipeline, and had limited success on openbsd, if all streams had the same sampling rate) Oh, and OpenBSD managed to loose my data. (I liked many aspects of the system despite the above, but after this it got on my nope list, this was not acceptable even 30 years ago)

anonymous_union 3y ago
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anthk 3y ago
OpenBSD had sndio since ages.
alpn 3y ago
> OpenBSD managed to loose my data. can you elaborate please?
- fodkodrasz 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903911 I was using softdeps on OpenBSD 6.4, on an old Thinkpad x200. Once the battery ran out unexpectedly (old battery reporting incorrect remaining time), while I was doing some downloads and compiling a package. The system became unbootable because of filesystem corruption, after fsck and overwrite of system packages from other boot media I noticed extensive data loss. After clean reinstall experiencing intel drm driver kernel panics during ports install the disk became corrupted once again, with some files lost. I reinstaled the system once again and with disabled intel drm and softdeps the system worked for a while, but was slow as an ancient pentium. I reinstalled windows and the machine worked great for years afterwards (with the wifi being a bit choppy, which was perfect on openbsd) for some tasks I needed a semi-portable windows machine (running some windows only plc programming tools). The ssd was healthy, memcheck did not find memory errors. I reinstaled my openbsd server with linux which was running ok meanwhile, but now I can sleep assured that my data is mostly safe.

anonymous_union 3y ago

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anthk 3y ago

OpenBSD had sndio since ages.

alpn 3y ago

> OpenBSD managed to loose my data. can you elaborate please?

fodkodrasz 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903911 I was using softdeps on OpenBSD 6.4, on an old Thinkpad x200. Once the battery ran out unexpectedly (old battery reporting incorrect remaining time), while I was doing some downloads and compiling a package. The system became unbootable because of filesystem corruption, after fsck and overwrite of system packages from other boot media I noticed extensive data loss. After clean reinstall experiencing intel drm driver kernel panics during ports install the disk became corrupted once again, with some files lost. I reinstaled the system once again and with disabled intel drm and softdeps the system worked for a while, but was slow as an ancient pentium. I reinstalled windows and the machine worked great for years afterwards (with the wifi being a bit choppy, which was perfect on openbsd) for some tasks I needed a semi-portable windows machine (running some windows only plc programming tools). The ssd was healthy, memcheck did not find memory errors. I reinstaled my openbsd server with linux which was running ok meanwhile, but now I can sleep assured that my data is mostly safe.