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Peter N. M. Hansteen

What, people are freaking out about *now*?

That writing was already on the wall (in bold, italic, lots of !!!s) when I wrote this thing in 2021 - "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" nxdomain.no/~peter/2021_wild_w about my then-new laptop and support.

That machine is *still* quite usable with OpenBSD, thank you! (also bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the tracked, prettified)

nxdomain.noThe Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems

@pitrh Open Source, generally, is motived by a desire to get things done. Proprietary is motived, generally, by a desire to cash in on the planned obsolesce cycle which drives modern consumerist capitalism. So, of course your OS requires the newest hardware, which, coincidentally, requires the newest OS, and this way to the great egress, sucker.

@pitrh

There is no "lush oasis" of open source systems, there are a bunch of jank hobbiest reskins of Debian that inherit all it's terrible design flaws and broken dependencies, and then there's stuff for server nerds and people who want to delete their OS kernel.

The Linux dev community has utterly failed to meet the moment, and all the righteous talk about wanting to move people away from Windows has been hot air.

Normal users are not going to adapt to linux, linux must be adapted to them.

@contrasocial I can't speak to your apparently negative experience of Debian and derivatives.

My longtime preference has been for OpenBSD (not a Linux or downstream of Debian), which should be obvious from the article.

The three part series starting with blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/open is a bit more wide ranging (also available in the raw form as one big article at nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_)

APNIC Blog · What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started | APNIC BlogOpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.