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

2022-10-11 Thread Michael van Elst
bl...@internode.on.net (Brett Lymn) writes: >On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:16:37PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: >> >> - Laptop touchpad behaving erratically. (Workaround is to use external >> mouse - if that is workable. However even little unintentional touch can >> irk the touchpad.) >> >For this

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

2022-10-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:05:18PM +, nia wrote: > Increasingly, this is a world where you can get by _without_ using a > desktop computer. That ship sailed in the 2010s. Curious about how commonplace that perspective is. Speaking for myself, and possibly in minority (that sailed with the

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

2022-10-10 Thread latincom
common mortals: Step one: next step: next step: more steps: You: > I think you are making a pretty big mistake by assuming we all > weren't "common mortals" once. Nobody is born writing device > drivers. But NetBSD is an excellent place to get into that, > the BSDs have a long heritage in

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

2022-10-10 Thread Brett Lymn
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:16:37PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > - Laptop touchpad behaving erratically. (Workaround is to use external > mouse - if that is workable. However even little unintentional touch can > irk the touchpad.) > For this one can you please do the following: 1) grep pms

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

2022-10-10 Thread nia
I think you are making a pretty big mistake by assuming we all weren't "common mortals" once. Nobody is born writing device drivers. But NetBSD is an excellent place to get into that, the BSDs have a long heritage in education. By considering NetBSD in the first place you're already opening

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

2022-10-01 Thread Ron Georgia
"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

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

2022-10-01 Thread Fekete Zoltán
2022-10-01 11:52 időpontban Ottavio Caruso ezt írta: On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 17:57, Fekete Zoltán 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

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

2022-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 17:57, Fekete Zoltán 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

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

2022-09-30 Thread Fekete Zoltán
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

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

2022-09-30 Thread Ron Georgia
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? I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss DRM. What else do I have to put up with? I run NetBSD 9.3 on a Mac Mini 2014 using modesetting for the video in xorg.conf since the intel causes a

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

2022-09-30 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 12:35, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I suspect this might be the least generally relevant list in the thread :), but just because, Tasks for which I use a Windows/MacOS box (controlled from my NetBSD box

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2022-09-28 Thread Andrew Ball
OC> If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I use it on my primary desktop and now that Firefox is working, I'm able to do the vast majority of what I want with it. Occasionally I'll find a Web site that doesn't work (last night it was iCloud) but it can play video

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

2022-09-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:44:23AM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I have NetBSD on a VPS server and on an RPI that I use as a NAS and some other jobs. On RPI4 which is used as a desktop I have Linux. Once in a while I try to

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

2022-09-27 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:12:36AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Arduino IDE (haven't tried) > FWiw, this worked the last time I tried it on NetBSD. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else

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

2022-09-27 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:04 AM Vitaly Shevtsov wrote: > > I would use with pleasure if it supported my wifi chip and amd ryzen vesa > card (integrated) I have a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I know is well supported with NetBSD and other stuff just for this reason. Can't help you with the vesa

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

2022-09-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Ottavio Caruso writes: > If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? My main desktop is NetBSD. It's old, from 2014, a hand-me-down then-high-end gaming box with 24G of RAM. Things that I need macOS or GNU/Linux for: Android Studio (haven't tried) Arduino IDE

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

2022-09-27 Thread Vitaly Shevtsov
I would use with pleasure if it supported my wifi chip and amd ryzen vesa card (integrated) вт, 27 сент. 2022 г., 16:35 Ottavio Caruso : > If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? > > I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss DRM. What else do I have to put up with? > > -- >

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

2022-09-27 Thread Ottavio Caruso
If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss DRM. What else do I have to put up with? -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: