> motivated me to do this: > > 1) my observation that many developers at conferences and online were using > macOS as their primary desktop environment. when comparing this to the > OpenBSD and Linux community I felt pretty embarrassed, but it did explain the > stagnant nature of our graphics subsystem. people seemed afraid to touch > things due the brittle nature of its hardware support. > > 2) i was in need to an *affordable* machine with a warranty. fortunately > there are many affordable laptops at staples, best-buy and amazon - but they > were all post haswell systems, rendering them basically useless from a > FreeBSD perspective. I've bought recently (like half year ago) cheapest laptop available. Everything supported with FreeBSD out of the box, except little problem with sound but dev.hdac.0.polling=1 made it work. What a problem? Even lowest end today computer is really high end for normal programs.Received on Mon Feb 18 2019 - 17:13:56 UTC
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