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New thinkpad arriving soon what do i install on it serious answers only allowed if accompanied with a joke ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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@r0se dualboot openbsd and 9front (which one you consider the joke is up to you)
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@r0se bootloaders are bloat rokalife
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@toast serious answer: i never meshed much with void tbh, i prefer gentoo with openrc

9front is fun and will probably be tested for a bit

i am not touching wsl1 though lmao
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@snacks @r0se reminds me that the bootloader on sparc and macppc is mostly written in forth.
(called OpenFirmware/OpenBIOS)
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@toast afaik gentoo has the same policy, patches only for compatibility reasons
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@r0se I guess either Gentoo or NetBSD.

Or if it's a vintage thinkpad, might as well go with Haiku or 9front on baremetal.
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@lanodan it is not an old thinkpad sadly, netbsd or gentoo will probably be my final choice for when I stop playing around with it
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@r0se @toast IIRC it doesn't but there's a "upstream your patches" policy which has a rather similar effect.
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@r0se for now but once gefs has been ported to openbsd its too good an idea to dualboot these 2
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@r0se You should install Void Linux for no particular reason at all! Optionally, install FreeBSD if you give one about robustness.
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@r0se btw for playing around definitely try 9front on baremetal, it's weird how low-latency it is.
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@r0se inferno (now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven)
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@r0se Have you considered NetBSD and its glorious ctwm desktop environment ?

Failing that, CentOS 6 is still pre-systemd

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@tfb netbsd is something i'll try, i refuse to touch centos though lol
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