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number one reason why i never go very far whenever i poke at using BSD is the filesystems
they are the pits... buggy, overly complex, and just the one simple task of mounting and unmounting USB disks says it all
seriously, i can't quite comprehend how someone hasn't made a BSD that disregards this bullshit and lets you use ext4 and enables normal, simple removable disk access
this one thing alone would bring so many people to using BSD for it's svelte, simple kernel
but no
instead we all have to keep using the dumpster fire called linux because of this one point alone, and there's others, but in my many attempts to use BSDs this has been the consistent experience
and i think, outside of that, actually what would be better anyhow is to take the android stack and put it on top of a modern BSD core, with its linux module providing access to linux device drivers and other linux bits
or maybe it's just time that i actually went back to custom kernel crafting and learn how to do the one thing that also has never been properly done for linux kernels - a simple tool that surveys a hardware and provides a set of kernel configurations that relate to it and the set of drivers that will be installed, so you don't put a gazillion things for the fixed devices (ok, makes sense to have many arbitrary mostly unused drivers for USB but that's it)
the mess that is linux drivers makes me crazy these days tho... biggest issue i have in recent times relates to my radeon video card, which almost no live USBs actually support (it was released late last year)
anyhow, just reminds me also how great the liquorix kernel is and how i should be using it
and another thing that grinds my gears is why the fuck can i still not have a hypervisor that lets me partition my machine so i can mostly run linux for work but when i want to play, spawn a windows system and run that
or a windows hypervisor that lets me actually use linux adequately that is nearly as stable and responsive as a bare metal version
nope, nada... and as nice as these new container WSL things are, i just can't stand being stuck with some of the more idiotic limitations of windows GUI, i REALLY need my damn middle click paste, and while it continues to be mostly supported also by linux, i can't live without linux, but every year i bump into more problems with input drivers or GUI or updates to GUI libraries that start to push this STANDARD X feature into deprecated... and wayland, of course doesn't properly support it either
jesus h FUCK it's just a simple thing, select copies into a secondary buffer, middle click pastes from secondary buffer... it's been part of the X spec since almost before there was windows at all
number one reason why i never go very far whenever i poke at using BSD is the filesystems
they are the pits... buggy, overly complex, and just the one simple task of mounting and unmounting USB disks says it all
seriously, i can't quite comprehend how someone hasn't made a BSD that disregards this bullshit and lets you use ext4 and enables normal, simple removable disk access
this one thing alone would bring so many people to using BSD for it's svelte, simple kernel
but no
instead we all have to keep using the dumpster fire called linux because of this one point alone, and there's others, but in my many attempts to use BSDs this has been the consistent experience
and i think, outside of that, actually what would be better anyhow is to take the android stack and put it on top of a modern BSD core, with its linux module providing access to linux device drivers and other linux bits
or maybe it's just time that i actually went back to custom kernel crafting and learn how to do the one thing that also has never been properly done for linux kernels - a simple tool that surveys a hardware and provides a set of kernel configurations that relate to it and the set of drivers that will be installed, so you don't put a gazillion things for the fixed devices (ok, makes sense to have many arbitrary mostly unused drivers for USB but that's it)
the mess that is linux drivers makes me crazy these days tho... biggest issue i have in recent times relates to my radeon video card, which almost no live USBs actually support (it was released late last year)
anyhow, just reminds me also how great the liquorix kernel is and how i should be using it
and another thing that grinds my gears is why the fuck can i still not have a hypervisor that lets me partition my machine so i can mostly run linux for work but when i want to play, spawn a windows system and run that
or a windows hypervisor that lets me actually use linux adequately that is nearly as stable and responsive as a bare metal version
nope, nada... and as nice as these new container WSL things are, i just can't stand being stuck with some of the more idiotic limitations of windows GUI, i REALLY need my damn middle click paste, and while it continues to be mostly supported also by linux, i can't live without linux, but every year i bump into more problems with input drivers or GUI or updates to GUI libraries that start to push this STANDARD X feature into deprecated... and wayland, of course doesn't properly support it either
jesus h FUCK it's just a simple thing, select copies into a secondary buffer, middle click pastes from secondary buffer... it's been part of the X spec since almost before there was windows at all