![]() The difference between no Nix install and having one isn't huge. Nix's disk usage profile is pretty similar to Flatpak's, or to a collection of closely related Docker containers. > Files having multiple hard links are counted (and displayed) a single time per du execution. Nope, du counts hardlinks correctly when it encounters the same inode multiple times in the course of fulfilling a single invocation. > And that's not even getting into the "waaa?" from `du -hs /nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface I can install ffmpeg, relevant codecs, PDF tools, Darktable or other Unix friendly photo tools, but wouldn’t that be a constant fight and tweaking to keep them running? Sure, one can run Firefox on OpenBSD, but would it play YouTube and Netflix without making me pull my hair? Wouldn’t OpenBSD make me constantly fight against its opinionated safety first way of doing things? ![]() Without worrying about whether I have the right codecs or file formats. Use PDFs without worrying about formats, markup on them as needed, fill forms on PDFs.Ĥ. Work with photos(personal) - edit them, crop them to share with someone, markup screenshots to put in docs etc.ģ. Browse all bloated modern websites using a modern web browser - FirefoxĢ. The things I’d do on my personal computer :ġ. I love OpenBSD…… as a server particularly as a DNS or a network gateway with pf as a firewall.īut, I cannot fathom how using OpenBSD on a Desktop/Laptop for personal computing would NoT enrage me everyday. There is full documentation of the patch, including why it's needed, how the patch resolves the issue, and a diff of the patch is included. Once I reboot the newly-patched kernel is active. Open terminal (winkey->enter), "doas syspatch -c", type pass, see there's a patch, "doas syspatch" to apply it, done in 2 seconds. Oh, I just installed a security patch in about 20 seconds. That's honestly effectively impossible for someone using Mac or Windows. I'm easily aware of every single process that runs on this machine, and if there's one I don't know about, there's comprehensive documentation about it, including how to configure it. Nothing updates on its own, and the OS runs very very few services or other background stuff - basically only whatever I have explicitly configured and enabled. It couldn't interrupt me and piss me off even if some piece of software wanted to. There is literally no mechanism in the OS to pop up a notification or bounce an icon or blink anything at me. Extremely fast, efficient, and stays out of my way. I mean, I'm using a GUI that is really primitive by comparison to Win/Mac (i3wm) but it's actually great. I still use Windows for work, and own a ton of Macs (probably getting close to ~30 by now), but OpenBSD is the OS I use for most general computing stuff. It's interesting, I've been using OpenBSD for the past couple years and it has _not once_ enraged me the way Windows and Mac do. Keep the attack surface small while still meaningfully improving the core. If I had my way, then I'd take the OS updates and skip all the apps. But now it feels like I'm being held hostage to their update schedule.Īnd for what benefit? There are hardly any useful OS-level changes in this release, but there are a bunch of new features I'll need to disable (while hoping the next auto-update doesn't break my external monitor), all powered by freshly written code contributing to an expanded attack surface. I used to delay updating and then would end up way behind, which is why I enrolled in auto-update. But I do have a problem with upgrading my entire OS and disabling the new bloatware features just because I want to keep auto-updates enabled. I have no problem with Apple bundling these apps and making them work seamlessly together, and I don't even mind that they're all updated simultaneously (except for Safari, which I wish I could update independently without relying on the "Technology Preview" beta channel). Some of the major updates have meaningful changes to the underlying OS (gatekeeper, SIP, etc.), but others - like this one - are primarily changes to frills like Messages, Notes, Safari and other Apple-native apps that I don't even use. I wish Apple would separate the updates of their bundleware from their OS.
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