Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Anyone ever use OpenBSD with a desktop environment as a…"
@parikko, thank you for sharing your experience.
i have some guesses.
i think the trackpad issue might be hardware related. if your machine gets hot and trackpad gets hot it may stop working.
on limiting cpu niceness of sync: there should be a way to maybe limit i/o of the process in some way.
operating systems tend to tell the userspace program that the file is already saved/copied but it actually is only copied to write cache and is then being written from cache to disk.
thats why windows has this 'safely remove hardware' and one must unmount before removing in unix.
this cache may be also limited but writes will be slower. but i often limit it in linux because otherwise i/o buffers are
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full and other things that need i/o are slowing down drramatically and hang waiting for their i/o opportunity.
so maybe limiting i/o or caches may help?
on file systems: another non latin writer/reader here.
windows made a design desicion to store files internally as utf-16.
in linux world we usually use utf-8. since linux is widely used it has no choice but to be "user-friendly", and it is expected to not cause troubles, when you write a utf-8 encoded file name, the filesystem driver converts it to utf-16 and stores. and vice versa, reads utf-16 and shows you as utf-8, it is an implicit default behaviour.
in bsds one needs a special option for a mount command to mention encoding.
if you use utf-8 as mount option, it will behave like linux does.
just bsds need that explicit mount option.
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Anyone ever use OpenBSD with a desktop environment as a daily driver? How was it? Can you do most stuff on it? It sounds like a potentially fun project.