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   Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 19:40:40 JST Peter Tribble

   Is 2024 the year of Tribblix on the desktop?

   For me it is, anyway. (Small sample, I know!)

   To be honest, it's not just a year, it's been a decade of Tribblix on the desktop for me. And servers, development machines, the whole shebang.

   Having tried (lots of) other operating systems, I can't honestly see much prospect of anything else displacing it.

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     Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 19:40:35 JST Peter Tribble

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     • Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

     @joel If you want commercially provided drivers for external cards, nvidia is the only game in town. But that's relying on the nvidia build for Solaris (it's some cross-compilation thing as I understand it) still working on illumos.

     I'm more that happy with my old Intel HD integrated graphics with the default Xorg driver, full transparency and tear-free at 2560x1440. And the Intel integrated graphics is actually the only graphics that's really natively supported by illumos (via gfx-drm).

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd: (joel@piou.foolbazar.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 19:40:38 JST Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

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     @ptribble I read nvidia was the preferred hardware for Illumos based workstation. Is this true? On can one get accelerated graphics using Intel GPU?

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     Peter Tribble (ptribble@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 19:40:39 JST Peter Tribble

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     • Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

     @joel Dell Optiplexes for desktop use; they're very solid. Being aimed more at business they're also very predictable (boring is good).

     I don't have any laptops available - used them only for work, so always the company-defined setup - but unless they've improved dramatically since 10 years ago they tend to have "interesting" hardware configurations.

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     Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd: (joel@piou.foolbazar.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 19:40:40 JST Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

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     @ptribble which hardware are you using? Last time I tried Illumos was on Intel (CPU + GPU) ThinkPad and it was kind of limited in performance.