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I always smile a bit when i read this kind of posts because authors usually don’t realise the kind of “brainwashing” they went through: they basically adapted t
by znpy 2y ago
I always smile a bit when i read this kind of posts because authors usually don’t realise the kind of “brainwashing” they went through: they basically adapted themselves to the os rather than adapting the os to themselves.
Any os can be great if you “just” learn to do your computing the way the os dictate.
And, am i really supposed to be impressed by the fact that you can “just press enter enter enter” to install openbsd? Like, for real?
- exe34 2y ago> they basically adapted themselves to the os rather than adapting the os to themselves. That's an odd thing to say. Is there an OS that you have adapted to you?
- _joel 2y ago> That's an odd thing to say. Is there an OS that you have adapted to you? Microsoft BOB
- traceroute66 2y ago> That's an odd thing to say. I am not the OP, but I would chime in to say it is not odd. I am someone who regularly uses the entire spectrum of OSs: Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD. OpenBSD is very much the most opinionated OS out there. If your view of the world is inline with that of the OpenBSD core-devs (or if you just want a minimalist OS for a firewall or whatever) then you'll get on just fine with OpenBSD. But for many people, it could easily be the case they would be better served by "anything else". Probably Windows/Mac/Linux, but even FreeBSD is not quite as hard-line opinionated as OpenBSD. OpenBSD has a number of great server-side applications. But there's no chance you'd ever find me ever using it as a desktop or imposing it on anyone else as a desktop !
- exe34 2y agoI'm still trying to figure out what you can adapt on windows that you can't adapt on a bsd. your reference about desktop - are you referring to background themes, adjusting the mouse speed, etc? I personally won't be interested in daily driving a bsd until they can get suspend/resume at the very least, but I'm considering trying it out in a VM. my needs are few, and I could always use the host Linux for anything that didn't fit in the VM. I'm quite tempted by the whole "you can understand the whole OS" aspect, and I always took that to mean you can therefore mould it into what you want. currently I do have a sweet setup with nixos though, it feels almost as an OS-as-an-appliance, on account of it being almost impossible to brick (I somehow managed it once, 8 years ago, but have never re-installed since).
- znpy 2y agohttps://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
- exe34 2y agoI suspect the number of people who have personally turned LFS into a customised daily desktop OS are very few and both of them are reading this thread.
- znpy 2y agoMost non derivative distributions started as Linux from scratch. Also, most of the embedded linux folks have at least tried lfs at least once. And almost all of them do the exercise of creating a custom linux distro (either via automated lfs or via some other kind of tooling like yocto or buildroot). Too bad openbsd people can’t even conceive something like this possible.
- exe34 2y ago> Too bad openbsd people can’t even conceive something like this possible maybe they prefer to use the right tool for the job?
- kev009 2y agoKind of the definition of man-machine interface. You in some way adapt to whatever you choose to interact with.