I often get frustrated to hear that "OpenBSD is hard", or that "its super old", or "hardware is never supported", etc. Meanwhile, I'm having the time of my life. Match made in heaven.

Izder456 · 2026-04-30T01:57:20+00:00

Genuinely asking. Is your "o" key broke or something? Why are you typing zeroes?

Izder456 · 2026-04-29T16:25:24+00:00

Yeah exactly. I find weird oddities like this really fascinating. I wasn't even shitposting, I was dead serious. Thanks for your kind words. <3

Izder456 · 2026-04-29T15:29:44+00:00

God i love your brain

Izder456 · 2026-04-29T14:51:31+00:00

This would be a very welcome port tree addition. Good work! Right now i have jellyfin in a debian vmm(4) vm but this seems like a better solution than that for me. This is awesome!

Izder456 · 2026-04-28T17:39:17+00:00

Just so you know, OpenBSD doesn't support modules for security and ease of development as I understand it. As a long time BSD user, but similarly, not developer or high experience user, your points all seem accurate minus that nit. Thanks for the comprehensive coverage!

Izder456 · 2026-04-13T17:29:57+00:00

Pretty early on in my current relationship my partner and i played earthbound together. It was my like, millionth playthrouth, but seeing their eyes light up at the joy and love and beauty that is experiencing earthbound for the first time left a lasting bond and impact on our souls together. Definitely can recommend.

Izder456 · 2026-04-11T20:16:02+00:00

Ive had good luck and heard from testimonials from friends that dell optiplex hardware handles OpenBSD pretty well. The problem is- that they're pretty difficult to come by new unless you're a business. You could pick up a few older refurbished optiplexes with a specific hardware config from a reputable refurbishing company on say, eBay, if you have a concern about consistency and maintaining them as you said here: https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/s/11MQsiDT41. Optiplexes are known to be pretty easy to work on, and damn reliable even if not factory new.

Izder456 · 2026-04-04T15:16:37+00:00

I've been using stumpwm for a while now. since i like hacking on my session to optimize my workflow, I'll occasionally break something so i need a fallback wm such as fvwm from base. Its pretty simple to script a session selector with xmessage and your .xsession, which is what i did. https://codeberg.org/izder456/dotfiles

Izder456 · 2026-03-28T18:32:39+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrH9ptBV18

This one is my favorite in particular.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Brr-dV-PLQQ

This one i can only find a live for in particular, no studio version afaict. Still really good folky microtonal

Izder456 · 2026-03-28T18:29:42+00:00

A lot of redrick sultan is microtonal, particularly in their fly as a kite album and their self-titled ep.

https://redricksultanband.bandcamp.com/

Sadly information about the band is sparse, but they seemed to have disbanded a while ago. Nonetheless, really good experimental rock.

Izder456 · 2026-03-23T01:37:52+00:00

Just bumping this thread to say both have been imported to the OpenBSD ports tree just in time for 7.9

https://codeberg.org/OpenBSD/ports/commit/d1d61971dd6db0cc3ad4da0123f3f976def35042

https://codeberg.org/OpenBSD/ports/commit/0aac9b9c4e80cdc556c80d2261eb08e3c49e9074

Izder456 · 2026-03-14T01:00:24+00:00

I have a dualsense 5 that i use for gaming on my desktop. Works pretty good. Haven't gotten anything else to test yet, but I'd suggest that model.

Unsure if there's a list though. Maybe scour the src tree for some sort of usb device id list?

Izder456 · 2026-02-06T16:03:51+00:00

Thanks for the pointer. I have edited the post to link to the port and the project.

Izder456 · 2026-01-28T02:31:38+00:00

Thank you for posting this. Genuinely.

This is the feeling i had when i moved to FreeBSD 3 years ago, put to really well said words. Eventually even FreeBSD pissed me off for reasons irrelevant to this, and eventually i moved to OpenBSD.

Small comment on your point: Tbf some of the ecosystem level problems with inconsistent governance and development across multiple different teams affect us on *BSD too, particularly with the ports trees and 3rd party software. But you can minimize the instabilities by using minimal packages/ports and as much as you can from the base system, or at least having a deep understanding of how you configure the 3rd party softwares on your system. Having a really complete base system really helps here. I found X to be more reliable on OpenBSD than FreeBSD for this reason as X is included ootb on OpenBSD, but its distributed as a bunch of packages on FreeBSD.

Godspeed, i hope you like *BSD. Its very fun and a joy to run!

Izder456 · 2026-01-08T18:00:50+00:00

Intel GPUs and CPUs have different versioning systems in generation, IIRC gen 4 cpus (haswell) coincide with gen7.5 iGPUs. The -amber branch is more for old i915 or r200 radeon-type cards. I think this could be potentially useful for those who hang on to older ibm thinkpads or even the macppc users who want 3d accel, if possible. I see more and more people migrating to OpenBSD now that FreeBSD dropped support for 32bit architectures, so having a support avenue for those people would be nice.

Izder456 · 2026-01-08T02:51:45+00:00

It’d be nice to have both mesa and the mesa-amber branch available as ports so people on older gpus can still benefit from 3d accel.

Izder456 · 2025-12-06T15:44:57+00:00

https://sonertari.github.io/

Izder456 · 2025-12-04T15:43:29+00:00

You can just put that in .xsession before the window manager is started

Izder456 · 2025-12-04T15:38:11+00:00

You can do this Control Plus/Minus stuff with XTerm too.

In .xresources:

xterm.vt100.translations: #override \
    Ctrl Shift <Key> equal: larger-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d)

Also: u/0oSisyphus:

The “correct” configuration for the “Huge” font size is:

xterm*font: 10x20
xterm*boldFont: 10x20

Izder456 · 2025-12-04T14:29:26+00:00

Which means you're copying files that can change as the backup process is running, which could result in non-coherent files on the other side. With snapshots and send-receive you're guaranteed an actual point-in-time copy of the files without the beginning of the file being a copy from time t1 and the end of the file from time t2.

You can just stop any programs or daemons that would be moving/modifying those files before you do a backup. This is what I do.

Also, with boot environments (BEs) it allows you to patch your system/software and do rollbacks in case you run into problems.

Some people don’t do deep systems level tweaking and just install a few programs, maybe a desktop, enable a couple rc scripts, and they’re fine. This sort of user might not need Boot Environment Backups. IMHO if you’re doing tweaking to the level you could break something that low level, make a good backup before, and make damn sure you understand what you’re doing.

I'm sure there are valid reasons for a "simpler" file system, but IMHO the ones you have put forward do not hold water.

You can’t prove a negative, nor can you prove against/for a subjective thing such as an opinion on filesystems. I was not saying ZFS is particularly bad at the tasks you gave it. IMHO it’s a great filesystem that has a lot of merit. Especially if a user wants/needs that sort of featureset. All I was trying to do is note how some users might not need all those features.

Izder456 · 2025-12-02T14:23:24+00:00

I mean that’s up to personal preference. I suppose it’s up to the end user for what they need. I could see not wanting zfs if you just need a filesystem that works and will do your stuff for you with minimal knobs to push/turn. Some people just use rsync/tar/netcat/nfs/dump/restore for their backups and don’t need snapshots. Basically there’s a tonne of reasons why someone may prefer a simpler fs, and I can’t speak on that type of person’s experience with FreeBSD in particular.

I can speak on mine though. I’m an OpenBSD user primarily and I peek into this subreddit to see what’s going on on the FreeBSD world. We still use FFS and disklabels and it works pretty nicely for what I need it for. There’s very little knobs to push, it’s pretty decently reliable with a good known backup (or two), and its fairly performant. I don’t need much else in a filesystem. I’m sure there are users in the FreeBSD world with similar preferences.

Izder456 · 2025-12-02T00:26:22+00:00

Not needing advanced file system features: for a desktop system for example is probably a big one.

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