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It works quite well. The OOB experience is very complete and hardware gets picked up without issue. However you’re limited in the amount of apps and it’s also i
by myaccountonhn 2y ago
It works quite well. The OOB experience is very complete and hardware gets picked up without issue. However you’re limited in the amount of apps and it’s also incredibly slow, so you’ll need to really use minimal, fast cli apps.
I left it ultimately because it had way worse battery life than Linux on my T480s and I also wanted to play some games with steam.
- eru 2y agoYou could probably get close to the same experience by running your BSD in a VM when you need it?
- tasuki 2y ago> it’s also incredibly slow I never used OpenBSD. Why is it incredibly slow?
- daneel_w 2y agoDisk I/O is notably slower than e.g. Linux or Windows and executional performance is generally a tiny bit slower, but nothing about it is "incredibly slow".
- dijit 2y agobrowsers are exceptionally slow in my experience.
- daneel_w 2y agoYou will want to enable GPU-accelerated rendering for Firefox and Chromium to get a smoother experience when scrolling pages and for certain video playback, because that's disabled by default. Besides that they load and parse pages and act on input pretty much as fast as they do on Linux.
- amatecha 2y agowell, SMT/hyper-threading is disabled by default[0] , not sure if there are other reasons though. It's not that bad, but yeah OpenBSD is probably not your optimal gaming OS :P [0] https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg9...
- daneel_w 2y agoSMT being disabled is not a reason for anything to be incredibly slow, or even tangibly slower, unless the CPU has a single core.