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by type0 2348 days ago
It is, and also less useful
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anthk 2348 days ago
Eh, I am coding in C and Scheme rn under OpenBSD.

Iridium works, html5 video works, so do the videos under MPV. I've heard succesful stories from OpenBSD users with Vulkan under MESA. Even amdgpu works, but the -current release is better for that.

PPSSPP and some C# gaming works; so does N64, NES, SNES, PSX and even maybe DC emulation. A PS2 emulation is WIP, and it's not PCSX2. Then there is Dolphin, Nethack, ScummVM, lots of source ports...

You have LibreOffice if you want, among a lot of known ports https://openports.pl such as Python3, R, Node, and so on. No Netflix, but maybe with fake mobile UA's under Chromium you can override the DRM.

CWM+XClock+Xlock as my "DE". I don't need more.

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uncle_j 2348 days ago
Untrue. It works better than most people give it credit for.

I run quite a lot of stuff on OpenBSD and it works for the most part fine. Sure if you are running Netflix or something at mega scale it probably won't be any good, but it works quite well for a lot of hosting scenarios.

I can make a pretty decent desktop OS as well.

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yjftsjthsd-h 2348 days ago
I think it's strictly true that OpenBSD doesn't do as much as FreeBSD. You may well argue that it's sufficient, but the claim isn't untrue.
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tedunangst 2348 days ago
Unproven that doing less is synonymous with less useful.
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uncle_j 2348 days ago
It can do the same stuff in a lot of cases. It won't scale as well but that is a different discussion. You can always find things another OS can't do.
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