Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

[Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 9/27/22 5:44 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS?
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> I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss DRM. What else do I have to put up with?
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I run NetBSD 9.3 on a Mac Mini 2014 using modesetting for the video in xorg.conf since the intel causes a little tearing while using Firefox or Thunderbird. I also have NetBSD 9.3 installed on my Lenovo x200 (yup, 2009 model) Everything work on that old laptop, including the WiFi chip. My main "driver" is a Fedora box. I use that for Azure stuff, it has power shell and integrates well with the latest Jetbrains products. However I find myself doing most of my development (Python, DJango, Postgresql and MySQL) on my NetBSD box. I am also trying (futilely is seems) to learn Rust and that's done no the mini as well.

What works well for me:

• PyCharm CE 2021.3.3 (downloaded from Jetbrains and uses openjdk11)
• Python
• Web stuff
  
• Rust (learning) projects
• I have the Sourcery plugin working... it was a struggle
  
• Intellij CE 2021.3.2 (pkgin installed)
• Gimp for when I pretend to be creative
  
• Thunderbird for email
  
• Firefox with lastpass and ad blocker plugins and NetBSD theme installed
• python3.10, go, node
• Hugo
  
• Django for web app development (python virtual environments work great)
  
• rustup (Thank God I can have rustup)
• Filezilla
• Sakura for terminal. Qterminal and xfce4-terminal also work well, but I stopped using those
• fvwm3 for a window manager
• The community is one of the most welcoming groups I've been a part of; albeit I am mostly a lurker
  

What doesn't work for me due mostly due to ignorance, laziness, and maybe lack of support

• No vscode or electron
• Pycharm Pro fails
• PyCharm 2019 is pkg installed and is old. Also has a bug. You have to change the openjdk17 to openjdk11
  
• Printing can be done, but I usually struggle to get it right
• Haven't tried scanning docs yet
• The general amount of current desktop apps are lacking, for me not a show stopper (behind FreeBSD)
• Can't get current to install on my mini, waiting for NetBSD 10 with a worm on my tongue. That's baited (bated) breath. :)
• Sound. I love music and I love it while I code, for now Spotify is relegated to my Fedora box

I've used XFCE, Mate, Openbox, fluxbox and ctwm but I've settled on fvwm3.

Hope this helps.

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