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Similar to my philosophy: #BSD wherever possible, Linux if BSD is unsuitable or just too much effort. I only administrate my own servers, but the only two cases where BSD wasn't feasible are Collabora Office and #BigBlueButton. #NextCloud, Webserver, Backup-Server (Time Machine via #netatalk, and #rsnapshot) all run on #NetBSD with #ZFS, some in their own #nvmm virtual machine.
That's for servers, on the desktop I use Mac, but have one virtual machine with Windows for the air navigation planning suite (SkyDemon).

3 October at 11:18 | Wall-to-wall | Open on digitalcourage.social
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Doerk

@hopfgeist @stefano That’s a sensible approach and I totally agree. There are some (few) things that only work on Linux, but most times BSD is a good decision. I am not sure about Mac for workstation. Yes, it is convenient and works perfectly with long battery runtime, but I don’t like their pricing policy and the fact they keep you in their walled garden and are limiting the opportunities to tweak the system.

3 October at 12:03 | Open on nrw.social
Bernd

@doerk @stefano I am aware of the problems with macOS, and maybe my next desktop will run Linux (probably not BSD, mostly because of the X-Plane flight simulator), now that decent video editors are available, which was not the case eleven years ago.
I currently use an 11 year old iMac 27", with 32 GB RAM (which is crazy expensive to have on current machines), upgraded with an SSD and running Ventura thanks to the Open Core Legacy Patcher. It runs everything I need at decent speeds, except X-Plane 12, because that needs Metal features the hardware just won't provide.
So, I'm mostly happy.

@doerk @stefano I am aware of the problems with macOS, and maybe my next desktop will run Linux (probably not BSD, mostly because of the X-Plane flight simulator), now that decent video editors are available, which was not the case eleven years ago.
I currently use an 11 year old iMac 27", with 32 GB RAM (which is crazy expensive to have on current machines), upgraded with an SSD and running Ventura thanks to the Open Core Legacy Patcher. It runs everything I need at decent speeds, except X-Plane...

3 October at 12:50 | Open on digitalcourage.social
Doerk

@hopfgeist @stefano Indeed these old machines were upgradable and repairable, unlike the recent M* Notebooks. If you buy an M3 MacBook today, you better go for the best machine you can get, otherwise you’ll regret later. From this perspective I find Framework notebooks quite interesting, but of course they are no mobile workstations. It’s difficult. I liked the reliability and runtime of Apple machines, but each time you buy a new one, they are more and more expensive.

3 October at 13:34 | Open on nrw.social
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