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by dijit 3700 days ago
FWIW I did what you did, Linux -> FreeBSD, but when I moved "further" away from linux-land and went to openbsd I was surprised at how much more polished things are.

My laptop (thinkpad X201s) used to idle very rough under FreeBSD and suspend didn't work, but under openbsd it did.

Also there were some hardware drivers which appeared not to work at first but running 'fw_update' caused openbsd to download the device drivers I needed and they started working perfectly.

I'm still shocked how easy it was, sure I miss all my software that depends on /proc and I miss zfs.. but I can't think of an operating system that would fit my thinkpad better.

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Well if only I could run OpenBSD on my X51RL... That is, it runs fine, but my wifi card doesn't work. I actually just asked a question on /r/openbsd about that: https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/4ilko3/drivers_con... Hope to get some helpful answers there, the case with ath5k is so complicated, reading mailing list and glimpsing over the related C files (I know little C and no hardware) didn't provide any info.