OpenBSD -current with cwm. #ShowYourDesktopFriday
@starbreaker I'm jealous. (I turned to a life of sin ~4-5 years ago when I got a Mac)
@jordyd Maybe it's time to upgrade? A used ThinkPad T-series laptop should be all the power you need. Or, if you don't want to buy hardware, you could always try OpenBSD a virtual machine or try NetBSD with a free shell account on sdf.org.
@starbreaker I don't know. One of the reasons I switched to Mac was that I was spending all my time customizing my Linux installation. With Mac, I don't have to worry about it, as there are no settings to customize :)
@starbreaker The options are 1) dock on the bottom, as Steve Jobs intended, or 2) dock on the side, as grandpappy NeXT used to do
@jordyd I had that problem with Linux, too, but not with OpenBSD. Even though both systems have X11 and most WMs and DEs are available, I haven't bothered to do much tinkering after I got cwm and conky working the way I wanted them to.
@jordyd The machine shown is a desktop (used ThinkCentre M92p), but I've gotten 3 hours on a used ThinkPad T430s with a worn-out battery.
@starbreaker One thing about Apple is they only have to support one set of hardware, so getting good battery life isn't very difficult. (Consider: Linux 3.13 was ~12 million lines of code, but ~7mil of it was drivers, ~2mil was support for different architectures, and ~139k for the kernel proper.)
@starbreaker I wonder if I'd have any luck with one of those tiny ARM computers
@starbreaker I wonder how long it would take to compile GCC on one of those :P (LLVM takes ~1hr on my iMac, which has a 3.2 GHz i5)
@jordyd OpenBSD on arm64 is a bit complicated, especially for newbies.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170409123528
It should work OK on a MacBook Pro.
@starbreaker Well, I hardly use my MacBook as it is, so it can't hurt to give it a shot!
@starbreaker How is the battery life? When I used Linux it was always a gamble.