Arminio
I just bought a new workstation computer. Ryzen 6 cores, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB SSD.
Arminio
Pretty neat machine.
Arminio
I run NixOS on it.
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Sometimes Linux was noticeably faster, sometimes FreeBSD won that fight, there were times for both I think?
Freebsd 12 is even closer to Linux in terms of performance
Linux is still faster but BSD is getting there
Maybe with freebsd 13 it will be close up to Linux in terms of performance
Arminio
Freebsd 12 is even closer to Linux in terms of performance
Linux is still faster but BSD is getting there
Maybe with freebsd 13 it will be close up to Linux in terms of performance
Absolutely possible. Over all these years, that happened a few times (for me at least).
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I just bought a new workstation computer. Ryzen 6 cores, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB SSD.
Niiicceee
I just bought a workstation with
Xeon E3-1225v2 mit 3,2 GHz
24 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
4 TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro
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Its already in shipment 😂
Arminio
Network management was always a pain on FreeBSD (automatic roaming with wifi networks for example) but with FreeBSD 12 and the new dhcpcd, this seems to be solved, too (FINALLY!)
Arminio
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Arminio
Also you just wrote "with" in german. :)
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Bah rotating disks in 2020?
Yes they are still cheaper than ssds and I think also more reliable for backups
Arminio
I still have 7 rotating hard drives, a friend of mine today wrote me that he has an old 2012 desktop computer he doesn't need anymore where I could just drop all the disks into to build a FreeBSD fileserver. :D
Arminio
Oh, you wrote "mit" at some point in your specs description of the Xeon machine. :)
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😂
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I am German
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Busted
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😆😆😆😆😆😆
Arminio
Greetings from Frankfurt ;)
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Arminio
:D
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Greetings back from Ratingen
Arminio
ah nice, I grew up near there :)
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Düsseldorf?
Arminio
Duisburg!
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oh OK 👍
Arminio
My first own flat back then had about 10 computers or so (pretty old ones, but all of them had internet). Been running FreeBSD on at least 7 of them. :)
Arminio
I think that was FreeBSD 4.
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Cool
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Until today I just ran freebsd on my old laptop for about half a year
I switched back to Linux because of better graphics and suspend support
But I'm hyped since then of freebsd
Arminio
Until today I just ran freebsd on my old laptop for about half a year
I switched back to Linux because of better graphics and suspend support
But I'm hyped since then of freebsd
At the end it's about using whatever works for you, so don't feel pushed to the BSD side, but yea there definitely are a lot of use cases where I prefer it over anything else.
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At the end it's about using whatever works for you, so don't feel pushed to the BSD side, but yea there definitely are a lot of use cases where I prefer it over anything else.
Haha I don't feel pushed / forced to use BSD
Arminio
I also love to run it on ancient laptops because it's what makes me feel at home.
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What I like about BSD is its stability
It feels more like posix and is closer to Unix than Linux could ever be
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also security wise BSD should be more secure as what I've heard of
And there are even options to harden it with one click
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And the ability to compile everything from source and change the package to your liking reminds me a lot of Gentoo but with the opportunity to also just install everything as a binary
Arminio
Yeah you should try NixOS. ;)
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Yeah you should try NixOS. ;)
Oh I've heard of it but I never used it
It scares me that there is no FSH standard
g
NixOS is nice
g
i personally use the nix package manager standalone
Arminio
Oh I've heard of it but I never used it
It scares me that there is no FSH standard
It shouldn't - you'd be surprised how easy it is to work around that fact.
g
idk if i should nixos though
Arminio
Well I currently run NixOS on 6 systems or so. It works just fine.
g
it might be easier now tbh
g
now i use swaay
g
but getting cadence and jack to work ootb on a fresh install without manual stuff? no idea where to even start!
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but getting cadence and jack to work ootb on a fresh install without manual stuff? no idea where to even start!
I felt like that on my first time on freebsd on my laptop
Arminio
but getting cadence and jack to work ootb on a fresh install without manual stuff? no idea where to even start!
https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#jack
Arminio
Trivially simple
g
i might try it
Arminio
You'll feel at home as a musician, really :)
g
i dont really do much music anymore
Arminio
You can even just install Renoise (free edition) using Nix.
g
nice!
Arminio
Supernice, yea
g
i like having jack installed for rythm games, software mixing, using laptop as a screen for a hdmi device, etc
g
low audio latency good
Arminio
Interesting, I only use it when I make beats
g
dunno how to even install nixos
g
i want to use it with my current OS installed
g
in a btrfs subvol
g
without overwriting my stuff
Arminio
dunno how to even install nixos
I wrote a script for that so you don't need to, even enables full disk encryption:
https://gitlab.com/shellmachine/nixos-config-phoenix/-/blob/master/phoenix/nixos-init.sh
Arminio
You're probably able to read it in a couple of seconds (AND understand it, too)
g
how does sway work on nixos?
Arminio
Oh, excellent?
Arminio
A couple of friends use it while I remain on Xorg
g
just need sway and xwayland
g
wanna move nixos talk into PM?
Arminio
Well a friend of mine is the maintainer of systemd in NixOS (also some sway stuff, too, I think)
Arminio
sure
Arminio
g
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