Post #1115122
2026-04-10 23:02 UTC
OpenBSD is S-L-O-W. At least, compared to other modern operating systems. But you know what? That's ok! Sometimes we need to slow down. Sometimes we can take the extra couple of minutes that a FFS2 file transfer takes and just relax and reflect on the day. We don't always have to be in such a damned hurry. I'm learning that I don't have to have the fastest, most powerful, energy-hungry computer to get shit done. I'll take security and correctness over face-melting speed.
Sure, I'm getting older and slowing down just as nature dictates, but I'm also learning to accept that as a good thing, not something to fear. It's okay to just go with the flow, and we will get there when we get there.
#OpenBSD #slowcomputing
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@klymilark@walsh.fallcounty.omg.lol 2026-04-11 15:20
@kaidenshi I switched to Gentoo recently, and the compile times... don't bother me as much as I expected they would? Took a full 2 days to install, and a lot of software takes 20+ minutes to install, but... it's fine? I can just let it do its thing while I do something else. Computers being slow is fine, as it turns out