louis, (edited )
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First full evening using exclusively installed on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen. 8.

Base install was ridiculously easy, installed XFCE4 for a little more comfort.

After replacing apmd with obsdfreqd from @solene - power management is excellent, fans off most of the time and battery lasted all evening.

OpenBSD does not support Bluetooth at all, lucky I still have an old Logitech mouse with a USB dongle.

Firefox is usable but without DRM support and a bit sluggish. Ungoogled-chrome works well. SMT support can be turned on with a single config line.

Emacs, of course, works well with the exception that I couldn't get UTF8 characters to display, I need to spend more time on that.

If you need proprietary software or projects with such components, OpenBSD is not it. Which makes it so fun.

skybert,
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@louis @solene I've written this crash course for getting UTF-8 to work everywhere, including Emacs, have a read if you want: https://skybert.net/craftsmanship/utf-8-for-the-impatient/

As for OpenBSD: I like it too. Like a lot. I think it's best suited for me if I could use it for work (but I can't, currently). In my spare time, I just want to relax, watch Netflix, HBO and play games. So after running OpenBSD for a while, I went back to Linux.

craigbro,
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@louis @solene I have UTF8 chars displaying, at least when accessing my emacs on obsd from my mac running iterm2. I did have to tell emacs to use utf-8 as it's preferred coding.

(prefer-coding-system       'utf-8)<br></br>(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)<br></br>(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)<br></br>(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)<br></br>

I also set the following envars

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8<br></br>LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br></br>export LC_ALL LANG<br></br>
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