Re: UNIX systems

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Hmm, really? I think I got it to work on Freebas 14.x or a snapshot of 15 a long
time ago, but I don't quite remember, so could very well be that I tricked
myself with suspend. Since I only used it for a week, I didn't check too deeply.

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Yeah, I believe FreeBSD can suspend to RAM, but not to disk.

That was probably the mistake I made. Not checking if it was to RAM or disk!

Freebsd I got 13-14 hours out of, and my current opensuse running on a 1.5 year
old laptop still sits at around 12-14 hours.

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That's impressive.  If I could get some 3 hours with OpenBSD, I'd be
very happy.  But, honestly, I hardly ever need it and when I'm on the
go, there's usually an outlet where I need.

Only 3 hours? How old is your laptop? Sounds like you should at least be able to
get 7-8 hours out of a new one, unless you are running enormous amount of VM:s
or scientific calculations.

I also learned about cwm, the ``calm window manager'', which I think it
was built by the OpenBSD people.  It's the window manager that has
enchanted me the most.

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Yes, I've heard about it. I like the concept! I run XFCE, since it is a nice
compromise between batteries included, and some kind of lightness. For business
it works great. If I only did development, I'd look at cwm or perhaps dwm.

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I remember I thought XFCE was very ``beautiful''.  But I think after it
went down with GTK, it lost its feeling of new kid on the block.  So the
definition of ``beautiful'' here is just ``different from the same
old''.  That's likely a problem I have with graphical interfaces: I get
tired of them.  Text interfaces, though, don't seem to bother me at
all---on the contrary, I tend to get addicted to them.  For instance, I
love the GNU EMACS and software like slrn, which I don't use anymore
(due to Gnus).

True.
I have 4 virtual desktop. On 1 lives the web browser, 2 alpine email (terminal
based email client), 3 qpdf a pdf reader with session support and on 4 my neovim
with aout 18 buffers saved in a session file.
When I was young(er) I fiddled around a lot with GUI:s, but somewhere the past
10 years or so, I just wanted something minimal with all batteries included so
that scanning, printing, wifi etc. just work our of the box. Xfce fulfilled that
for me, and I have never bothered to change it. I did have a quick look at i3
and dwm, but I would still have to keep xfce around for print/scan/wifi so in
the end, what's the point?
My latest revelation (a few years back) was alpine email, it probably doubled my
email productivity compared with thunderbird, and is a "all in one" solution
that comes with a lot of help included. Still flexible and extensible though,
but probably not as much as mutt or neomutt, but it strikes a beautiful balance
for me. =)