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Justine Smithies
OK just ordered 32Gb DDR4 ram and an NVME 1Tb M2 2880 drive to upgrade my freebie Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower. It's the i5-10500 version so it'll make a nice #BSD desktop for me and save me using the #ThinkPad all the time. #RunBSD
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Justine Smithies
I probably will install #FreeBSD but I have looked at maybe trying #OpenBSD but I'm kind of put off by the small selection of #Wayland stuff. I'm not sure wether I would, should or could go back to an X based WM ??? Food for thought thought and feel free OpenBSD family to tell me why I should... show more
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Fierce Krill
Justine Smithies You should try it and not let anything about Wayland hold you back. Just go with X. Its fine. (This is my take, as a person who has never even used Wayland)
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Rotten Crawdad
Justine Smithies Have I asked if you'd looked at Dragonfly, Justine? I recall wondering about it some years back, but I didn't actually get around to doing anything about it. I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that desktops were quite good on it, but that was years ago. The filesystem looked interesting... show more
Justine Smithies
If I did give #OpenBSD a shot and obviously went with the flow using an X based WM then I do like the look of #HerbstluftWM as it seems very scriptable too. 🤔
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Wide Barnacle
Justine Smithies Does OpenBSD have anything more sane than FFS to offer? Because I wouldn't want to go back to that.
Wizards Anonymous
Justine Smithies curious which drive you went with and why freebsd. :)
Justine Smithies
I went with this drive and FreeBSD because that's what I run now as my daily. I just love the community, documentation and its init system too. www.crucial.com/ssd/t500/ct1000t500ssd5