/distro/ - OS General

[Thricegreat]

Let's talk about OS like Linux, *BSD, Plan 9, &c.

# Resources / Other Notable OS

* DistroWatch | ArchiveOS
OS repositories.
* Alternative Operating System General
A reference for another alternative OS general, more so for inspiration.
* DuskOS
A Forth-based system that's extremely minimalist and portable.

[Thricegreat]

I use OpenBSD. And this is the sndio setting I use. Mainly for low-latency.

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doas rcctl set sndiod flags -b957 -z64 -es32 -joff
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I have tried to lower the -b size, but that was the minimum size without causing troubles. I guess it depends on the machine. I use Thinkpad T440p.

sndio is a main reason of why I use OpenBSD. I absolutely hate Pulseaudio and even ALSA.

[Thricegreat]

I think Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is good. Which is transitioning into HyperbolaBSD by acquiring the OpenBSD base.

It is FSF-approved and has very strict criteria. In other words it is clean as pure water.

I recommend to check its package repository occasionally as a guideline for choosing what software to use.

[malformed_jill]

I use OpenBSD.

i do too, on my toughbook laptop. however, with it being a 2-in-1 laptop (thought i could draw on it) and due to bsd's lower support for hardware drivers, and in particular openbsd's focus on security over performance (affecting battery life and such), i'll probably be switching to gentoo later (considered netbsd since it seems like a good in between in free and open, but it's still bsd) i once i get my ssd and everything backed up. for some reason, ext4 files are read only on obsd too so i'll have to back all my stuff up in a really tedious way (flash memory).
speaking of netbsd, i never knew why the japanese in particular took a liking to bsd, and that bsd in particular considering how cucked and complacent they are. maybe because it's the only modern one that still runs on their old pc-98 shitboxes.

I think Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is good. Which is transitioning into HyperbolaBSD by acquiring the OpenBSD base.

i really like the enthusiastic freetardism of this os, and i use the unsupported packages list as a guideline too. though... they're taking quite a while. would go well with my so-to-be tinkered thinkpad too for maximum freedom.
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anyhow, we should have some resources in the op because i don't like it so empty, particularly if there's gonna be some interest in non unix-like os's too. i don't particularly have much aside from basic ones, maybe mailing lists later
- https://distrowatch.com/ | https://archiveos.org/ - os repositories
- https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki//aosg/_Alte ... em_General - reference for another alt os general, more so for inspiration

[drummyfish]

I'm still mostly using GNU/Linux but started to move more towards BSD. I am typing this on my OpenBSD laptop and on my other laptop I have NetBSD.

DuskOS is an OS I would like to highlight here. It is a Forth-based system that's extremely minimalist and portable, much more than any Unix will ever be. It bootstraps easily on many platforms from just some tiny assembly snippet basically but is also ISA independent by implementing some kind of tiny hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and it can do some magic like running natively at full speed as a normal program under any OS. It's sort of an extension of CollapseOS, the bare minimum doomsday OS, but this is trying to be a bit more comfy and usable, though it's still ridiculously minimalist. Strictly speaking it's non-Unix but I think they try to make it very Unix compatible by porting various utils and so on. It is absolutely public domain under CC0, zero licensing BS. So far this comes the closest to my ideal OS.

[satoridepon]

I just use Debian GNU/Linux for my main OS. There's nothing special about it and its stable as a rock (albeit im using a Thinkpad).

BSDs are based and comfy. I like the experience and simplicity of OpenBSD but I have no need to switch to it since im comfortable with using Debian at the moment. (Un)fortunately theres no bluetooth support on OpenBSD with means I can't connect my chinese headphones.

I don't know why people use Arch, I have it installed on another laptop and the package manager is always fucking broken.

Also when installing a Linux distro install it WITHOUT a desktop environment pre-installed. Be a chad and start Xorg or whatever you're using manually from the terminal.