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

  • el gaucho@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • pfrOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years 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.

    • socphoenix@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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

      • el gaucho@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

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

        • socphoenix@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 years 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.

  • sujeewa@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    Have you used dwm? If so can you tell me if it’s easier to use sdorfeh relative to dwm? These days I don’t have much time to configure my wm. I just use dwm with no patches. Just some scripts to display the date and time, settings the wallpaper and etc.

    • pfrOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Sdorfehs is way easier to configure than DWM imo. No need to recompile, just a simple config file

  • DammN@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 years ago

    Nice ! Love the simplicity! Does gopher still produce any content for users ? I thought all people moved to amfora …

    • pfrOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah there is still plenty of Scribe Gopher users. Gemini (amfora being the client) is pretty cool tho. I use both.