Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/10/24 3:52 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, 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...

 This is the truth! I get about 14 hours or so out of my 1 year old Asus with linux if I really make an effort. FreeBSD when I tested it 1 year ago looked very promising, but since I did not have a lot of time for testing, I never maxed it out.
 I followed this guide:
 https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/the-power-to-serve-freebsd-power-management/

   Had an EEEpc ... great little unit ! Then I dropped
   it off a ladder while aligning a security camera  :-(
   Ran MX.
   Actually this laptop runs MX too ... it's been a good
   system for most everything. doesn't consistently rank
   so high on DistroWatch for nothing. Have NOT 'updated'
   to a BookWORM version though ... and won't.
   Working on FreeBSD for an N95-based BMax micro-box.
   Got everything good in a VM - now to put it on the
   hardware .....
   Hey, has anyone ever tried to 'dd' a VirtualBox VM
   onto real hardware ??? Get a really good image and
   Grub2 *might* be able to find it and make it bootable.
   MX has a utility for creating a clone, bootable,
   customized system - it's been useful more than once.