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horia bonked 23 Feb 2026 09:17 -0800
original: izder456@ieji.de

Took about 15 minutes to spin up a mate desktop with #openbsd

Thats pretty easy.

Around 11 minutes of that 15 was installing the os and the desktop packages, but im on a slow 100mbit internet. The remaining 4 or so was configuring which involved reading a pkg-readme file, following instructions in it, and setting up a few themes.

I really don't get it when people say OpenBSD is hard to set up. Its really not

When i show screenshots of my usual setup on openbsd in linux-oriented places online i'll often get questions like "how do you *even* run that? Isn't it bad for desktop?" Or "openbsd is really bad and supports nothing, i don't think i could use it" or, "you're brave for using openbsd, i could NEVER" Etc.

Ive been getting by fine for the past 4 years or so, and have no plans to switch away.

Its true that desktop on the BSDs isn't nearly as streamlined as some linux systems, but if you can put in a little effort, its actually really quite nice to use as a desktop, and in some ways, better than linux

The mate desktop environment running with default panel layout, arc gtk theme. There is a terminal window in the center of the screen showing the output of a system fetch utility called "exfetch". Background is a sunset sky.

horia bonked 20 Feb 2026 10:44 -0800
original: nilix@cafe.nilfm.cc

#honkers ; does anybody know what happened to Ted?

Also does anybody have an up-to-date clone of honk? it appears the version i'm running is newer than the version i have the source for and the wayback machine doesn't have consistent snapshots of the source :<

horia honked 19 Feb 2026 15:45 -0800

I am currently seeking employment. If your company has an opening for a Password Manager, I would be delighted to send you my resume.

#FediHire