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What's up Lemmy? Oldish scrot, still rocking the same setup.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Love it! I'm curious, why do you use netbsd? Is there anything annoying about daily driving it?

I'm considering trying FreeBSD on my laptop, just for basic C++/Rust/Java progrmming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I initially entered the *BSD universe because I wanted to learn more about the system. I chose NetBSD because it's the closest to the original.

NetBSD has all the software I need so it's easy to daily drive it. They're is heaps of active developers and package maintainers and if what you want isn't in the repo then it'll be in pkgsrc.

I do use Void Linux on another machine too but I use my NetBSD machine more. It's just more fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use FreeBSD for our home server and it’s probably the best in my opinion because of the detailed manual. Word of caution for laptops though, WiFi cards can be finicky as to whether they’re supported. Gaming laptops with nvidia/intel dual drivers can also get messy. There’s more WiFi info here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi

And there’s information on supported cards on the os versions release notes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'll have to check out if my laptops card is even supported. Thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course. I run xrdp for Remote Desktop inside a jail along with quite a few other services and have no intention of going back to Linux for that machine, BUT laptops are a different beast entirely unfortunately.