Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Anyone ever use OpenBSD with a desktop environment as a…"
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.
May 04 · 3 days ago
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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.