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OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes

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Re: OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes

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Post by eb0la »

ullarah wrote: post #3

Any reason why you chose Lumina over many of the other ones? Just curious.

Lumina claims it needs about 150MB to run - maybe that's the reason. I wonder how much other desktop/window manager weight (before you ask: I'm on windows 10 - my window manager eats all the RAM it can get ;-).

Re: OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes

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Post by hidden_forest »

ullarah wrote: post #3

Any reason why you chose Lumina over many of the other ones? Just curious.

Sure. It's BSD-licensed. Given the choice for similar software, I will always opt for maximally free software. I'm not opposed to other licenses, but if possible, I choose and support the BSD and similar licenses.

In addition, it uses almost zero resources. I'm running OpenBSD on a Lenovo T520 with 12GB RAM. Everything works out of the box, which is typical with OpenBSD and Lenovo/older Thinkpads. I don't have the time to compile kernels and mess with tracking down binary blobs, which I won't use as a matter of freedom. Nothing in OpenBSD is a binary blob.

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