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   es0mhi (es0mhi@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 17:53:09 JST es0mhi

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   • Justine Smithies
   • Anders Gulden Olstad

   @andersgo @justine

   I haven't seen this expressed as clearly as that. For anyone with this use case and mindset, OpenBSD is possibly the best operating system available.

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     Anders Gulden Olstad (andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 17:53:19 JST Anders Gulden Olstad

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     • Justine Smithies

     @justine I'm pretty happy with #OpenBSD on my workstations. I'm lazy and it just works. Everything feels uncomplicated and old skool UNIX'ey. Speed and performance is not a great concern as I'm using old hardware anyway. I haven't lost any important files with FFS yet and FVWM3 is more than enough playground for me.

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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 17:53:20 JST Justine Smithies

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     • Justine Smithies
     I know some would say but you don't have ZFS but that's not a game changer for me. Yes it would be nice or maybe a hammer port for OpenBSD but I'm quite happy with FFS and well there are always backups you know. There are Wayland ports on OpenBSD too which I have ran successfully in the past but I'm really liking going old school.
     
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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 17:53:21 JST Justine Smithies
     Feeling so so comfy daily driving OpenBSD of late that I've still not touched my FreeBSD ThinkPad. The only FreeBSD interaction I've had is with my servers in my homelab which I'm tempted to add some OpenBSD stuff in their too. It's been amazing as everything just works and yes I'm running current too with no Wayland. But that doesn't matter as I'm really liking HerbstluftWM.
     Yes before you ask I have been tempted to deploy puffy on the ThinkPad but have so far resisted as the Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower on a i5-10505 is plenty quick enough.
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