Re:High Sierra macOS freezing and stops
by reacharavindh on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:48PM
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Looking into VoidLinux very much for the reasons you listed. So far, from my playing with void on a VM, it feels like the "OpenBSD" of the Linux world.
I love OpenBSD (using it for pf Firewall, DNS and DHCP at work) but I seriously doubt how it'd work in a laptop. My concerns are power consumption, and drivers. Even VoidLinux with the latest linux kernel gives me trouble to enable audio. I really want my laptop to have audio, Wifi, Sleep/resume, web browser working properly. You think OpenBSD might be up to it?
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Re:High Sierra macOS freezing and stops
by kanishkdudeja on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:21PM
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Why not Ubuntu?
Re:High Sierra macOS freezing and stops
by reacharavindh on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:33PM
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Because I want a BSD-like simplicity/minimalism with a Linux kernel(for its extensive driver support for laptops). Ubuntu is just not that.
Re:High Sierra macOS freezing and stops
by explainplease on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:29PM
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Recommend restic for backups. Great new software that's under active development.
Recommend Debian for the distro. It does a lot of things for you, and correctly, but it is also infinitely configurable. It can be the "just works" distro you need, as well as the hacker's tinkerable distro you want. And it has staying power and consistent security updates. Mix stable with testing/unstable and get stability where you need it and recency where you need that. Plus the community and documentation are very good.