Post #716404

2026-03-21 08:15 UTC

Alright team, I am going to give #BSD another try. What is the best version of BSD that I can install on an Alder Lake #N100 Intel CPU? I have a mini pc that is collecting dust at the moment and I gots the BSD itch. Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions. I am trying out #NomadBSD which is based on #FreeBSD. Supposedly it is fairly new user friendly. The documentation is easy to follow. If this goes belly up, I will try the other big three. At this time I don’t want to go through with manually setting up a desktop environment.

Replies (6)

@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-21 08:52

@jlw_the_jobber Speaking as a noob, I was amazed by how easy #openBSD was to install and get running with #xfce. I think my next bout of experimentation will be doing it with #KDE (the #nextcloud client for openBSD seems to offer integration with dolphin; KDE's file manager). The only thing I haven't got my head around is auto-mounting USB drives upon insertion. Perhaps antithetical to the sane security defaults for which openBSD is known, but there are lots of guides online for people wanting it :P damned if I can get them to work though! *edited to add, if you want to run Virtual Machines on it, they have to be openBSD VMs; I only mention it because reading this quote was what made me read more about openBSD and then end up trying it... I know little about computers, but I've seen people make (indeed, I have worked with, and within) good systems and bad systems, and this sounded like someone who was really trying to make a good system... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912394 #virtualization

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@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk 2026-03-21 08:56

OpenBSD for sure. :openbsd:

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@arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-21 10:53

@jlw_the_jobber #NetBSD for sure ;)

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@freezr@friendica.myportal.social 2026-03-21 13:59

@jlw_the_jobber FreeBSD runs nicely too.

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@raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-21 16:00

@jlw_the_jobber if you want to do any sort of gaming or even just have a wider array of applications you can run on it definitely FreeBSD

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@dhry@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 17:44

@jlw_the_jobber There’s a version called “cachyos” or so oi’ve heard tell..

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