Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 09/12/2024 19:39, John Ames wrote:

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 13:39:51 +0100
D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

I've heard about it, but I do not think they supported a laptop last
time I checked it out, and was VM-only, but perhaps things have moved
in the right direction!

 

This is the truth! As long as I can have some basic tools, vim, xfce,
wifi and decent battery life (oh, and suspend), I'm a happy camper!

 It remains mind-boggling to me how poor power-management/laptop support
is in the FOSS world, outside of Linux (which gets it mostly by virtue
of being the proverbial 800-lb. gorilla, relative to the other players.)
OpenBSD I can understand, those people *exclusively* care about server
environments, but it's surprising how spotty NetBSD is with it, and
even moreso something like Haiku which is intended specifically for use
in a desktop personal-computer context...
 

I think that is fair enough. Redhat and IBM poured huge amounts of developer time into the basic stable server system.
If BSD wants that space they haven't the resources to do the desktop as well.
Mint works for me in my niche. YMMV
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