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[From Portuguese to English] Are you ready to embrace Void Linux? (felaktig.info)

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[–] kbdcb@lemmy.ml [S] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

It’s what I mostly write about. 🥸

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[–] provectus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I will check out more of your content. OpenBSD is a cool OS. What is your opinion on desktop OpenBSD?

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Not them but I found it too slow and unresponsive for desktop use. Would make a great server OS though.

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[–] kbdcb@lemmy.ml [S] 2 points 2 days ago

I use it on my thinkpad x220 works great with a simple wm. I use dwm.

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