"there's a bit of unnecessary bitterness" I didn't take it as bitterness, but rather frustration, and God knows I've been there (dare I say we've all been there) many times.
I work for a large financial organization
as a Python developer (well, that's only one of my many hats,
but it's the biggest one) and I am not a sysadmin or NetBSD
developer. I am a hobbyist, and love to tinker. And that
is what I do with NetBSD. Sometimes I want to do something
simple that other OSs with "built-in" desktops provide out of
the box, but with NetBSD I may need to dig and tinker a bit. And
honestly I get a little miffed because "I just want it to work."
Then I tinker and tweak and ask the mailing list and I'm okay
with that.
Your original question is a good one,
"what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any
other OS?"
- I've been playing with an RPI3 and installed NetBSD on it. The only thing I ran into was the python libraries and rust crates for the GPIO interface have a lot of C bindings particular to Linux. (I just want to setup an RPI3 to a motor so I can roll the patio shade up and down.)
- You cannot have ZFS on boot with NetBSD... yet.
- Some popular desktop apps are not
available.
- You may not be able to take advantage of the newest hardware (again, as a hobbyist I am thinking desktop)
So to your original question, that depends on where you spend your time.On 10/1/22 5:52 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 17:57, Fekete Zoltán <fekete.zoltan%minux.hu@localhost> wrote:Hi There, My daily driver with NetBSD 9.3 is a Lenovo Thinkpad t430s (2013) Works: - wifi - i915 display - mini dispay port output - Hungarian keyboard - audio - webcam - USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports - card reader Works partially: - touchpad (no two finger gestures) Does not work: - display backlight. Workaround: set the brightness when starting up the laptop (BIOS handles). Generally a very good choice for a portable NetBSD workstation. The screen resolution and screen quality is a bit low end, though. Owerall performance is quite impressive, I suggest to install 16GB of RAM and SSD. Firefox startup time after coldstart is about 2-3 seconds. I use that to develop C++ applications using NetBeans IDE. The build time is acceptable as I can use 4 cores.I'm not having a go at you, but I stated in my topic "not programmers or sysads" and I practically got answers only from that category. So, my impression is: if you're not either a programmer, a sysad or an NetBSD official developer, stay away. Yes, I know , there's a bit of unnecessary bitterness in my statement but please change my mind.
-- "There seems to be a scratch in the prism of my understanding."