I know you just switched, but you should try OpenBSD - way better desktop experience IMO.
dsemy
joined 1 year ago
SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.
dconf can also be configured with text files (with a format similar to ‘.ini’ files), although enabling this support isn’t trivial, and it’s not the most well documented feature.
I also used to run a ”lobotomized” Gnome, but TBH I found it easier in the long run to start from a minimal base.
Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.
Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.
Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.
Man I hate when people share that video.
How would you feel if a video of you doing something weird was viewed by over half a million prople?
I used FreeBSD on a laptop for a few months and then OpenBSD for a over a year (on the same laptop).
FreeBSD had various small issues:
It was nice in a lot of ways too - I really like the ports system, the OS is very customizable and very well documented.
On OpenBSD almost everything just worked out of the box. It comes with a privilege separated version of X11 (Xenocara) and 3 wms (FVWM (old), cwm and twm). I did have to setup lock on suspend but it never failed.
OpenBSD also got better all the time - I used the snapshots for a while and meaningful improvements and great new ports were constantly being added.
They just recently built a whole new set of networking daemons specifically to make it easier to hop between networks on a laptop, all while keeping things simple and well documented.
I currently use OpenBSD on a server from openbsd.amsterdam, and honestly it’s amazing.
Service management is dead simple and yet works very well.
It includes a bunch of useful daemons built by the project, which have a sane configuration format and a nice set of features (httpd, relayd, smtpd, etc.)
Downsides are the package manager (although they made it way faster recently), no support for Bluetooth, recent WiFi versions (with sone exceptions) and Nvidia GPUs, and IMO overly aggressive attitude of some developers on the mailing list.