Post #1160631 · Elektrine

@darth@silversword.online I am in the process of making FreeBSD my primary OS. It’s replaced Debian on my raspberry pi and I have just set up some spare SATA SSDs to install to on my desktop (hoping to use ZFS1). I will be triple booting Debian, FreeBSD, and Windows (for the wife) until I feel more confident.

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@yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-14 20:41

@darth@silversword.online That's exactly right—I switched to #DragonFlyBSD as my main OS as soon as Linux started stinking up with systemd. Now I'm using #FreeBSD

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@betabug@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-14 20:46

@darth@silversword.online I've been running OpenBSD on my laptop(s) since about 2012 or so. It's no big deal.

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@carson@social.chittom.family 2026-04-14 20:50

@darth@silversword.online Primary, in the sense of "desktop," is OpenBSD—it's been other things at various times, but that's what I keep coming back to. But for servers I generally use OmniOS or Debian (or Debian in an LX branded illumos zone). And my work system is macOS because of my only two choices, better that than Windows 11.

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@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-14 20:51

@darth@silversword.online Daily driver: FreeBSD Kid's junker laptop: OpenBSD Writerdeck Netbook: OpenBSD (though sometimes HaikuOS) iBook G4: OpenBSD Travel laptop: one each of OpenBSD & FreeBSD VPS instances: a mix of FreeBSD & OpenBSD

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-04-14 20:54

@darth@silversword.online it’s complicated. (My main BSD laptop broke physically, but I got a replacement, but the fast VM I used for building is on a machine I don’t have any more, and I refactored myself into a corner and must fix MirBSD first so atm I daily-drive an X61 with systemd-free Debian but otherwise the same setup (X without DM or DE, evilwm, xterm, screen, sirc, pine, lynx, …) I have on the BSD machine, and intend to switch back once I have sufficient time+tuits to make that usable again and update to LibreSSL, but atm I cannot even set up a. new build VM easily enough, it’s all tricky.)

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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space 2026-04-14 20:55

@darth@silversword.online I'm mostly using various releases of various BSDs in VMs for cross-platform software testing. I do have plans to experiment with FreeBSD on a couple of machines in my homelab, and to run NetBSD on a few unusual old computers. If I ever get the opportunity, I'd like to try OpenBSD on a ThinkPad X230.

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@outofcreativity@exquisite.social 2026-04-14 20:55

@darth@silversword.online My Laptop is running OpenBSD since some years and I'm really happy with it. #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

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@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-14 20:56

@darth@silversword.online used to be FreeBSD until some 4 years ago and I used to be a contributor even. "graduated" to Linux with no regrets tbh :p

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@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk 2026-04-14 20:58

Both my desktop and my ThinkPad run OpenBSD.

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@mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-14 21:02

@darth@silversword.online i use netbsd for everything personal and as much work as possible.

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@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-14 21:03

@darth@silversword.online #openBSD - to give some indication of how simple the installer is: I installed it myself and I'm using it as a daily driver, and I'm such a noob I haven't figured out how to mount a USB stick yet. Seems very secure indeed 😀 I managed easily to give it a GUI, office suite, web browsers, #freeCAD, #GIMP, #nextcloud client, & #flightGear. As a computer ignoramus, I'm really impressed by how easy it is. One day I will understand the disk partitioning too 😉 One cheap Chinese laptop worked fine except for the trackpad, another one has to be left overnight to boot up (the text-only installer boots swiftly so I guess it's most likely an X problem) and the WiFi card isn't recognised. Moral of the story: you'll probably have an easy life, but probably get a thinkpad if you want some degree of assurance. It's like art to me: I don't understand it the way the artists that made it do, but when I see a system as carefully documented and thoughtfully constructed to be as elegant as technology seems to permit... Well, I feel like I know it when I see it!

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@hi@romanzolotarev.com 2026-04-14 21:05

run #openbsd on #thinkpad and my servers, for some things i still use macbook, but gradually moving them one by one to openbsd

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@renatoaguiar@fosstodon.org 2026-04-14 21:05

@darth@silversword.online OpenBSD as primary OS.

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@hukadan@gts.chocolatines.org 2026-04-14 21:07

@darth@silversword.online I useOpenBSD (-current) as my main driver. I have also FreeBSD on a second hard-drive to play around from time to time, and Linux to play video games when they are not available on OpenBSD.

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@bytex64@awesome.garden 2026-04-14 21:14

@darth@silversword.online I swear allegiance to no one. But Windows is currently dead to me (for the second time) and I am very much looking forward to the laptop improvements landing in FreeBSD 15.1.

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@alfonsosiciliano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-14 21:16

@darth@silversword.online #FreeBSD Sometimes I post photos and screenshots of my laptop(s)

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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net 2026-04-14 21:24

@darth@silversword.online I have only BSD computers that I use as "daily drivers": A laptop and a tower, both running FreeBSD. In addition I run NetBSD on every computer I own that can run it, from an old 486slc2 and am Am586 via a Nintendo Wii to a couple of dual Pentium Pro machines. All but the 486slc2 are equipped with full GUI and set up so I can do Real Work(TM) from them. I have my laptop full of BSD stickers, Once - and there are witnesses - I was in an Irish pub here in Oslo, and one of the waitresses who had walked past our table a few times stopped, looked me in the eyes and asked "Are you running BSD on that thing or are you just bragging with those stickers?" Turns out she used to be a network engineer in Cambridge.

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@thedaemon@snac.9front.club 2026-04-14 21:26

Main desktop is FreeBSD. I use it as a server, game machine, and even have my Wacom drawing tablets connected to it.

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@DragonBard@dice.camp 2026-04-14 21:40

@darth@silversword.online Currently using windows due to job, etc. But I have hardware sitting next to me waiting for when I have the time to install a BSD. Both desktop and laptop. Oh, and some Raspberry Pis. Currently injured, so I can only sit for so long, and work takes up that slice of time. Got to survive first.

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@teapot_ben@glammr.us 2026-04-14 21:45

@darth@silversword.online Linux has been my primary OS for 25 years, but feeling the lure of FreeBSD right now. My new NAS runs vanilla FreeBSD, along with a Pi4 print server. Planning to migrate another server to FreeBSD, and currently experimenting with it on a laptop to get to know it better. If all goes well and there are no major showstoppers, I'm hoping it will be the only OS on my new desktop very soon.

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-14 21:49

@darth@silversword.online My main OS is Linux right now, since the computer I have is not supported very well by the BSDs But I used #OpenBSD as my main OS for a while and I love it. :openbsd:

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@skyglobe@hostux.social 2026-04-14 21:50

@darth@silversword.online my daily driver is Debian GNU/Linux Stable (desktop and laptop), my home router runs OpenBSD and my NAS runs FreeBSD. My work environment is mostly based on Fedora and Rocky Linux (small HPC cluster) with a pair of pfsense boxes as redundant routers (CARP + pfsync).

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@TomAoki@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-14 22:06

@darth@silversword.online Mine is tracking #FreeBSD stable/15, amd64. The computer has main, amd64, too, on another SSD for testing (less frequently updated).

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@AnachronistJohn@zia.io 2026-04-14 22:15

@darth@silversword.online Since GPUs have shitty open source support, my main machine in front of my physical self is a MacBook. GPU support is the only reason that’s the case.

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@AlanHicksLondon@fosstodon.org 2026-04-14 22:31

@darth@silversword.online solid, reliable, easy to use, runs everything I need including YouTube. As DBMail maintainer I also run Ubuntu and Docker for various Linux distros though still prefer FreeBSD.

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@vab@bonn.social 2026-04-14 22:34

@darth@silversword.online Where do I write in #OmniOS? 😀

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@lattera@bsd.network 2026-04-14 22:38

@darth@silversword.online Fellow BSD enthusiast here. I've been running BSD on all my systems for over two decades now. My favorite BSD is #HardenedBSD but I'm quite naturally biased. :-)

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@pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-14 22:41

@darth@silversword.online Just switched from Void Linux back to FreeBSD on my daily driver. Before that, I ran OpenBSD on my laptop for like 10 years plus. Just not happy that dxvk in wine doesn't support my onboard intel graphics on FreeBSD 15.

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@radhitya@navi.lain.day 2026-04-14 22:54

@darth@silversword.online but my secondary server is powered by #freebsd 👍

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@t3@billboard.bsd.cafe 2026-04-14 23:11

OpenBSD on my daily driver laptop, but my main desktop machine runs Linux.

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@RussSharek@mastodon.art 2026-04-15 00:00

@darth@silversword.online l have used #OpenBSD as my os on desktop (laptop) and server since the 6.8 release.

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@silverwizard@convenient.email 2026-04-15 00:03

@darth@silversword.online I keep linux for games, so my gaming computer is linux, but everything else is BSD unless there is a constraint disallowing BSD

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