OpenBSD is more about what's under the hood, than the surface aesthetics. It's an OS made for developers by developers (the OpenBSD developers). Great video!
I use OpenBSD as my daily driver, coming from a Linux background and I feel like it is hard to even think of switching to another system. I guess I have been spoiled by the OpenBSD developers in that regard. The simplicity and the extensiveness of the manpages are just beyond this world.
I use OpenBSD on my Lenovo V130 and enjoy every moment of it. Performance is good and the ports tree is a must. Also using OpenBSD for my email server, doesn't miss a beat and was easy to set up!
After 7 years of using Linux desktop and 2 FreeBSD desktop, I finally moved over to OpenBSD on my desktop (and laptop). OpenBSD really trained me to reduce the amount of software I use. I was heading that way with FreeBSD already, but OpenBSD made me more persnickety. I have a couple gripes but overall I couldn't wish for a better desktop OS. My only grievance with it is USB audio issues
@@synthoelectro it could be different with mixers. It’s worth trying anyway. I think one of the biggest issues is their USB stack isn’t great. So my issues revolve around Firefox ballooning over time and dominating my USB audio somehow. I also tried a USB mic and it didn’t work. But my aux mic over USB works. Still not the best, but when it does work, it’s great
@@synthoelectro I wouldn't say that. I never used a USB mic or mixer on FreeBSD. I've never used a mixer on OpenBSD either. USB headphones both perform equally well. OpenBSD has the strange issue with Firefox interrupting it (a restart of Firefox 1-2x a day fixes that), FreeBSD: never unplug your USB audio devices. You will have to kill all processes that were connecting to that sound device to get sound working again. OpenBSD doesn't have this issue. They both have their own pros/cons with audio. You have to decide which one works best for you. And most likely for both, you have to pick hardware that works well with each one
I used it years ago with had KDE and Ice Windows. It's a very solid secure OS feels snappy if you re-compile everything from the source. Back then I had a crappy HP PC with limited memory. If I installed it again, I'd build a better PC myself and choose parts that would work with the OS and get a laser printer. Once set up properly, you don't have to tinker with it very much except for the security updates. Familiarity with Unix and BSD is a must. The man pages are very helpful if you read them.
I have old Mac blue and white G3 maxed out at 1GB of ram. I am going to use either OpenBSD or NetBSD with the Blackbox desktop and MacBox which is a settings option entirely in Blackbox. XFCE would work well if 1GB is enough. Blackbox is smaller, but probably has fewer features. How much ram does your virtual machine have designated for it?
@@bobpegram8042 from the about panel at 0:53 it looks like his VM has about 5 gigs. Did you end up installing it and how did it work out? I’m getting ready to install openBSD on my thinkpad to try as a daily
I wonder what's the easiest way to use Skype and Zoom in OpenBSD? For my kid - it's not a big deal since she's only using her browser.. so Google Meet should work with the browser.
OpenBSD is more about what's under the hood, than the surface aesthetics. It's an OS made for developers by developers (the OpenBSD developers). Great video!
I use OpenBSD as my daily driver, coming from a Linux background and I feel like it is hard to even think of switching to another system.
I guess I have been spoiled by the OpenBSD developers in that regard. The simplicity and the extensiveness of the manpages are just beyond this world.
I use OpenBSD on my Lenovo V130 and enjoy every moment of it. Performance is good and the ports tree is a must. Also using OpenBSD for my email server, doesn't miss a beat and was easy to set up!
I love FreeBSD since I got my graphical environment working. Have wanted to do the same with OpenBSD… thank you for sharing!
I found OpenBSD very efficient when it comes to performance , however, I am not using it as my daily driver as it is not supporting my WiFi card
After 7 years of using Linux desktop and 2 FreeBSD desktop, I finally moved over to OpenBSD on my desktop (and laptop). OpenBSD really trained me to reduce the amount of software I use. I was heading that way with FreeBSD already, but OpenBSD made me more persnickety. I have a couple gripes but overall I couldn't wish for a better desktop OS. My only grievance with it is USB audio issues
without a USB audio interface, I couldn't mix and master or create music, hope something like that is different in the future.
@@synthoelectro it could be different with mixers. It’s worth trying anyway. I think one of the biggest issues is their USB stack isn’t great. So my issues revolve around Firefox ballooning over time and dominating my USB audio somehow. I also tried a USB mic and it didn’t work. But my aux mic over USB works. Still not the best, but when it does work, it’s great
@@classicrockonly so FreeBSD is the way to go, if you want to use BSD with these things?
@@synthoelectro I wouldn't say that. I never used a USB mic or mixer on FreeBSD. I've never used a mixer on OpenBSD either. USB headphones both perform equally well. OpenBSD has the strange issue with Firefox interrupting it (a restart of Firefox 1-2x a day fixes that), FreeBSD: never unplug your USB audio devices. You will have to kill all processes that were connecting to that sound device to get sound working again. OpenBSD doesn't have this issue. They both have their own pros/cons with audio. You have to decide which one works best for you. And most likely for both, you have to pick hardware that works well with each one
@@classicrockonly maybe a script would help with that?
Openbsd is truly a great system. :)
I used it years ago with had KDE and Ice Windows. It's a very solid secure OS feels snappy if you re-compile everything from the source. Back then I had a crappy HP PC with limited memory. If I installed it again, I'd build a better PC myself and choose parts that would work with the OS and get a laser printer. Once set up properly, you don't have to tinker with it very much except for the security updates. Familiarity with Unix and BSD is a must. The man pages are very helpful if you read them.
I have old Mac blue and white G3 maxed out at 1GB of ram. I am going to use either OpenBSD or NetBSD with the Blackbox desktop and MacBox which is a settings option entirely in Blackbox. XFCE would work well if 1GB is enough. Blackbox is smaller, but probably has fewer features. How much ram does your virtual machine have designated for it?
@@bobpegram8042 from the about panel at 0:53 it looks like his VM has about 5 gigs. Did you end up installing it and how did it work out? I’m getting ready to install openBSD on my thinkpad to try as a daily
How would you say running windows inside of QEMU via FreeBSD, not OpenBSD, would work?
I have the same shirt in green when you were on the web!
I wonder what's the easiest way to use Skype and Zoom in OpenBSD?
For my kid - it's not a big deal since she's only using her browser.. so Google Meet should work with the browser.
You look like a young dennis prager.
That’s not a very nice thing to say
the zionist shill?
Well, you sound like a young Jeffrey Dahmer so....