What is the best BSD for an old laptop? I basically want to put KDE on it and do basic tasks (email, web browsing, word processing)
What is the best BSD for an old laptop? I basically want to put KDE on it and do basic tasks (email, web browsing...
Josiah Thomas
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William Cruz
Jonathan Gonzalez
FreeBSD is the most customizable. OpenBSD is good but has poor hardware support. NetBSD is best for old laptops.
All BSDs are like debian with a ports tree tacked on.
Elijah Fisher
>like Debian
No way. Debian sucks.
Michael Young
Pic related idles at 200MB of RAM with LXqt installed. KDE will require more RAM.
Evan Bell
>idles at 200MB
Jesus I've run openbsd at it doesn't idle even close to that. To be fair I just used the barebomes FVWM setup they provide.
Nathan Cruz
freebsd unless you're a paranoid autist
Austin Carter
Browsers crash in FreeBSD. Browsers don't crash in OpenBSD.
Joshua Hall
>No way. Debian sucks.
Exactly.
Matthew Walker
>Browsers crash in FreeBSD
retard problems
Luis Clark
Do you even use a BSD as your desktop?
Bentley Davis
yeah and freebsd works fine lmao calm down
Adrian Price
On FreeBSD < 11.3 Web Content process may frequently crash due to bug 181741.
Grayson Martin
Reminder that OpenBSD is lacking the following things:
>A robust filesystem such as ZFS, btrfs, or HAMMER2
>Any kind of journaling FS
>SSD TRIM
>NFSv4
>Support for more than one core on various parts of the OS. The firewall, pf, is confirmed to be one of these parts, although there may be more.
>802.11ac networking
>Nvidia graphics from this decade
>AMD Vega graphics
>Certain Intel graphics, at least judging from comparing the manpage to the wikipedia article
>Broadcom wireless
>Bluetooth
>WINE
>LUKS/dm-crypt
>Linux compatibility layer
>Mounting ext filesystems
>free(1)
>lsblk(8)
>Proper virtualization (vmd/vmm is awful compared to KVM+QEMU or even Virtualbox)
>and probably more
Angel Carter
im still on 11.2
Daniel Jenkins
Same. So Firefox still crashes.
Zachary Sullivan
PC-BSD
Bentley Parker
It's TrueOS now
Jack Bell
i haven't experienced it. though debian's apt firefox no longer plays h264 videos, had to switch to deb-multimedia on that rig
Nathan Martinez
And that changed into:
project-trident.org
>Debian
?
Cooper Gomez
I have an old pentium3 laptop and, in the past when I've bothered using it, I just had the most barren install of Debian on it. Loads up to a terminal line and it's lightning fast when you use Screen and hop between various terminal programs. If I ever needed to do gui stuff, I could type startx to load up fluxbox
Robert Turner
just trying to relate to you bro