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by toyg 1417 days ago
IDE was one of many hardware issues that just took too long to be solved. For a long time, BSDs didn't seriously try to support consumer-grade hardware - be it because of lack of manpower, conservative attitudes, or "commercial" choices. OpenBSD still doesn't support Bluetooth...

On the other side, the Linux community fought hard to get everything to work, creating positive loops: the more hardware it supported, the more people could get it to work on their hobby hardware, the more they'd become familiar with it and push for adoption at work.
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nix23 1417 days ago
>OpenBSD still doesn't support Bluetooth

OpenBSD supported Bluetooth but they threw out the whole stack because of security concerns. I think it's the right decision for OpenBSD.

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toyg 1416 days ago
Exactly, "commercial" choice. Any OS that wants to support consumer-grade hardware, in 2022, must provide Bluetooth; OpenBSD just doesn't care enough about the consumer market to do that.
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nix23 1416 days ago
True they don't care about you, it's like you don't count...who could imagine that!!!

Quel sacrilege!!

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toyg 1416 days ago
Lol, I think this comment illustrates why BSDs will forever lag, better than any technical explanation... and I say that as an OpenBSD user.
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nix23 1416 days ago
>BSDs will forever lag,

Terrible to hear that!

>and I say that as an OpenBSD user.

My condolence that you have to use that terrible anti-consumer system.

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toyg 1416 days ago
I have to get an outlet for my masochism tendencies somehow, at least this doesn't leave scars - physical ones, that is.

I have to say though, my insistent trolling of the project on forums like these occasionally contributes to the push to progress - like the long-requested syspatch. I'm not sure what yours achieves.

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