Subj : QWK Readers for FreeBSD
To   : Atroxi
From : Hakuchi
Date : Wed Aug 26 2020 09:56 pm

-=> Atroxi wrote to Hakuchi <=-

 At>  Yeah, a lot of people are saying nice stuff with Pop! OS. I haven't
 At> tried that personally, as I'm not that much of a fan of prebuilt stuff.

I do feel you. But since I first got their laptop that came with it I thought
to test it out and here I am :)

 At> I don't even know if I'll stop at FreeBSD, but so far I'm quite pleased
 At> at how organized stuff are. Perhaps I will go deeper into the rabbit
 At> hole and install OpenBSD, though I don't see any reason for it right
 At> now. In general, however, it was quite easy to port the scripts that I
 At> have written in Linux over here which made the hop much more pleasant.

FBSD is good, but for some reason I found out that OBSD have matured rather
well and I do like it. Basically I could install it as a daily driver since it
has all I need.

 At>  X60s IS retro, it's quite funny how hard getting one of those thick
 At> laptops around my area. Whenever I ask about it on used computer shops,
 At> people always get shocked and ask why I'm looking for such an antique
 At> piece of computer and not their new, slightly used, sleek laptops.
 At> Perhaps they just don't get the appeal of Thinkpads.

People think they do need all the shiny new hotness or whatever ... If anyting
doesn't break, I have basically all the hardware I'll need for the rest of my
life. If not newer camera body, but that is different :D


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