330 sats \ 2 replies \ @irusensei 19 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: What interesting, non-Bitcoin technology have you been using lately? bitcoin
OpenBSD. I feel like I have wasted 10+ years of my life using Mac OS and Linux. Moving to OpenBSD is so refreshing! I still have one laptop running Ubuntu, but slowly moving my main workflow to OpenBSD. It's all so clean and beautiful!
I use it for public facing services. For everything else I tend to favor FreeBSD. For desktops I literally have to use everything because work.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @ibz 19 Jul 2022
Once upon a time, I was probably in high school, I had time to try out everything. I was a happy Slackware user at the time, but tried all the BSDs as well (been running FreeBSD as well for a while). For some reason I always remembered OpenBSD as the most pleasant of all OSes I tried, I don't know why.
But yes, then work happened... Windows, then OSX and Linux... Years passed by. I was buying MBP after MBP every couple of years, as they would break down for various reasons, becoming obsolete, impossible to fix... but hey - the employer always paid for the last MBP, and ... isn't MBP the default tool for a programmer?
But now, no more. I am slowly transitioning to OpenBSD and I am not getting any job that provides free MBPs. Those things are simply disgusting.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 20 Jul 2022
On the topic of alternative operating systems, for Linux, NixOS is where it's at. It's not "simple" though, like OpenBSD, but it has other great properties.
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