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:

• Plugged in headphones didn’t automatically output audio (and I never figured out how to do this in a non-hacky way).
• Locking on suspend would sometimes fail.
• My trackpad wasn’t recognized, and I had to use the console mouse driver under X to enable it IIRC (this also made the pointer freeze until X was restarted sometimes).
• More stuff I can’t remember.

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.

I know you just switched, but you should try OpenBSD - way better desktop experience IMO.

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.

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?

The fast inverse square root algorithm was known from the 80’s, and was used in at least one game I’m aware of before Quake 3. Also, it wasn’t important in the long run - the same year Quake 3 was released, the rsqrtss instruction was introduced by Intel, which made this algorithm obsolete (as it was faster and more accurate).

It is really cool though.

I’m actually not European (I mentioned it because others did in this thread, I think the developers are?).

In any case, I do “get the gist” but I disagree with it - why should the mainstream culture of a foreign country dictate what I can or can’t say (or name my project)?

And even if I did agree with you on that point, I would disagree with applying that logic to a term like “crackpipe” which isn’t considered a slur at all.

If you think the name is offensive, don’t use it. Once again, this project is a server for hosting pirated games, it’s not like they need to be advertiser friendly or whatever.

“Amateurish”? This is literally a server for hosting pirated games, who gives a fuck.

Also, if your first thought after reading the word crackpipe is black people, maybe you’re the racist one.

And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?