• hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    i usually use freebsd (haven’t tried openbsd yet…) and its linux binary compat is almost perfect, it surprisingly just works for most things although there are some rough edges as a desktop.

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      2 days ago

      How’s the firmware support/availability? For things like graphics tablets, graphics drivers, etc?

      I don’t think OpenBSD has binary compat with Linux but most Linux software should just need a recompile for BSDs—I’m discouraged from porting given that when it’s not a simple recompile I’d have much less idea what to do.

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        20 hours ago

        i don’t have a wacom tablet to test, sorry. generally all seems to work, graphics driver seem to be ported over from linux and synced to latest periodically. it might be better because i never have the latest hardware…

        indeed most things should just work after recompiling, but with freebsd’s great linux compat you can just run docker containers for example.