which O.S. do you use ?

My RPI5 runs Void Linux because FreeBSD is unusable on RPI5, unfortunately.

My MacBook M1 Pro runs MacOS 15.6. Tried to run FreeBSD on QEMU there but unusable too.
 
fmc000 said:
Windows 11 on my employer's PC I use at work. Otherwise only FreeBSD.
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I should add that in FreeBSD I use a couple of Virtualbox VMs, a Windows 10 machine that just sits there doing nothing and a Linux VM running POP-OS that I use to test Cosmic and to run UndercutF1 which unfortunately cannot run on FreeBSD.
 
Laptop - FreeBSD / WS FreeBSD | bhyve - Arch Linux ( for ollama, comfyui ). I really use mainly one OS even if i run Proxmox i still use FreeBSD as my main OS.
I also have a nice FreeBSD sticker on my laptop.
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GlitchyDot said:
I also have a nice FreeBSD sticker on my laptop.
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Nice.
Is this allowed? On my laptop sticks a The Turtle Moves Sticker, because I didn't dare to tinker my own FreeBSD sticker. I'm too afraid of getting sued for violation of copyright.
EDIT: Statement on the Use of the BSD Daemon Figure (Reading the FAQs sometimes helps 😁)

What I don't get:
Such things need to be done by yourself. On the foundation's shop-page you can buy things like a baby body suit, or a shower curtain, but not a simple sticker you could ship within an ordinary envelope for ordinary normal (payable) postage 🤪:-/
Does anybody actually wear FreeBSD shoes?
 
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Windows 7 (preferred)
Windows 10 (forced to)
FBSD (NAS, DNS)
VMWare ESXi for windows VMs.

The bulk of my (retired) work is Excel, Delphi, Cakewalk and Photoshop/ON1.
 
openSUSE Tumbleweed & openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC on office laptops.
Fedora on personal laptop.
FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD on spare SSD. I had a NUC that went KO.
Debian on Raspberry Pi 5 with ZFS .
Raspberry Pi 4b for all kinds of experiments.

Lots of others in VM's.

I want a cheap NUC to experiment with Illumos. Can anyone recommend one?
 
Maturin said:
FreeBSD. Nothing else.
For almost 8 years I don't have any other OS installed anymore, nor use anything else but FreeBSD, and FreeBSD only. Exclusively.

Well, not quite 100% true. I run a Windows XP image inside VirtualBox for 4 or 5 90's games. But that's it.
Nothing else but FreeBSD.
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Out of curiosity, which 90's games?

If Windows XP inside VirtualBox is a bit heavy on resources, have you tried emulators/dosbox and emulators/wine as an anternative?

I have had some success with these emulators:
dosbox:
- The Bard's Tale
- Heroes of Might and Magic I
wine (i386 version in this case):
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
 
I have a ThinkPad with FreeBSD, another one with Debian Linux, a Dell laptop with Windows 10, a MacBook Air M1 for work, and an old ~2011 ThinkPad with dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.

I generally use the FreeBSD ThinkPad, occasionally break out the Debian ThinkPad for music production or printing stuff, and use Windows for gaming with Steam :)
 
I only use Linux, when there is some opensource software which has "linuxism" in it.
E.g. the scala & F# plugins for vscode .
 
graue.Ritter said:
If Windows XP inside VirtualBox is a bit heavy on resources, have you tried emulators/dosbox and emulators/wine as an anternative?
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VB least problems. Worx.
Maybe it's because I have enough power, not running a ten year old medium class laptop, but a machine? 😁:cool:
I don't post my specs (here). I don't want to start any "look at my machine, dude!" competition BS.

I've just deleted a long post I have written to not start any detail discussion about "did you...?" "have you...?"
I slaved days over dosbox, and weeks over wine.
So, short:

With dosbox I had lots of troubles with sound. Always some stutter left.
Don't tell me about all the parameters one can set in the config file. I know. I tried everything.
btw. dosbox is pretty well documented.👍

Which you cannot tell about wine.
If you want to play a game which is not listed as a template on Wine's HQ, it's "welcome to the jungle."
About wine, winetricks, and Mizutamari I just deleted a 60 lines rant (it was mostly about wine.)
So, better don't get me started on this (at least not here [off topic])
(Alex, if you want to know my issues I had with your actually nice piece of software, just write me an IM.)
Maybe I'm too stupid for it, maybe this software actually can be a handful, maybe after weeks I still spent too few time with it. Anyway my patience which such kind of software is limited, and games are not my #1 priority.

So bottom line:
Currently no wine, no dosbox, just VB.
Even if I'm bored with the choice of games I currently have.
Brownie point:
I play less, and focus on valuable things. 😁:cool:

graue.Ritter said:
Out of curiosity, which 90's games?
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Heroes of Might and Magic III
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Master of Orion II
Diablo (1)
Patrizier II Gold
Die Völker (Alien Nations, Gold Edition)
688 Hunter-Killer
Hearts of Iron II (Armageddon)
Airline Tycoon First Class (damn, I found a bug which makes it impossible to win an open game.😡)
You Don't Know Jack (German Edition; together with my wife it's always very much fun! 🤓)

Alain De Vos for Lemmings, there is a webpage you can play the original first edition on for free:
Lemmings in Browser
And for Duke Nuken 3D there is a port, and you will find in this forums a How-To-Get it run ("natively") on FreeBSD.
I already played it exactly like 1990something - "Come get some!" 😁
 
Maturin said:
VB least problems. Worx.
Maybe it's because I have enough power, not running a ten year old medium class laptop, but a machine? 😁:cool:
I don't post my specs (here). I don't want to start any "look at my machine, dude!" competition BS.

I've just deleted a long post I have written to not start any detail discussion about "did you...?" "have you...?"
I slaved days over dosbox, and weeks over wine.
So, short:

With dosbox I had lots of troubles with sound. Always some stutter left.
Don't tell me about all the parameters one can set in the config file. I know. I tried everything.
btw. dosbox is pretty well documented.👍

Which you cannot tell about wine.
If you want to play a game which is not listed as a template on Wine's HQ, it's "welcome to the jungle."
About wine, winetricks, and Mizutamari I just deleted a 60 lines rant (it was mostly about wine.)
So, better don't get me started on this (at least not here [off topic])
(Alex, if you want to know my issues I had with your actually nice piece of software, just write me an IM.)
Maybe I'm too stupid for it, maybe this software actually can be a handful, maybe after weeks I still spent too few time with it. Anyway my patience which such kind of software is limited, and games are not my #1 priority.

So bottom line:
Currently no wine, no dosbox, just VB.
Even if I'm bored with the choice of games I currently have.
Brownie point:
I play less, and focus on valuable things. 😁:cool:



Heroes of Might and Magic III
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Master of Orion II
Diablo (1)
Patrizier II Gold
Die Völker (Alien Nations, Gold Edition)
688 Hunter-Killer
Hearts of Iron II (Armageddon)
Airline Tycoon First Class (damn, I found a bug which makes it impossible to win an open game.😡)
You Don't Know Jack (German Edition; together with my wife it's always very much fun! 🤓)

Alain De Vos for Lemmings, there is a webpage you can play the original first edition on for free:
Lemmings in Browser
And for Duke Nuken 3D there is a port, and you will find in this forums a How-To-Get it run ("natively") on FreeBSD.
I already played it exactly like 1990something - "Come get some!" 😁
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Hail to the king baby.
 
bgavin said:
Infocom games for me.
I have the complete library of ZORK, etc, etc.
All text based.

These are 16-bit, so I run them in a Windows 98SE VM under ESXi.
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I didn't know that 16-bit DOS versions of the Infocom games exist. I have the 8-bit cp/m version, but haven't played them in about 25 years; my cp/m machines are all in various stages of disassembly. I could probably install them on a Z80 emulator with cp/m.

I regularly (once a year perhaps!) play "ladder", the cp/m version of Donkey Kong. Today there is a very fine clone written in Java, which works on my Mac.

The other fun game is Empire, the war game of the century. Unfortunately, I don't have the source code for the FORTRAN version that was used on VMS, but there is a good clone somewhere.
 
Until I finish my scorched-earth reset, Windows at home... moving to FreeBSD in the closet, Arch on my machine, and something super easy on my wife's (maybe Mint). Work is mostly Windows for the machines in the lab, and RHEL or Windows for various workstation/ simulation tasks. No idea what IT has in the data center... I suspect mostly Linux variants, but I've never asked.
 
I have to use Windows for work -- laptop. And I have a VM for Windows development. Otherwise, FreeBSD is my daily driver (desktop and laptop); pfSense for my firewall/router and XigmaNAS for the storage server. Also running cbsd on a dedicated machine for VMs and jails.
 
epower53 said:
Until I finish my scorched-earth reset, Windows at home... moving to FreeBSD in the closet, Arch on my machine, and something super easy on my wife's (maybe Mint). Work is mostly Windows for the machines in the lab, and RHEL or Windows for various workstation/ simulation tasks. No idea what IT has in the data center... I suspect mostly Linux variants, but I've never asked.
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I use artix linux. It's arch without systemd and with a graphical installer.
 
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