I backed up all my files.
I made USB boot disks of various #BSDs.
I made a clonezilla clone of the entire disk.
I booted into the #FreeBSD disk and was about to wipe out #OpenBSD.
At the last minute, I decided to go through pt.4 of @rootbsd's OpenBSD setup video to see if I could squeeze any more performance out of it.
No better, as far as I could tell.
I went through OpenBSD Guy's (YT) OpenBSD performance video.
Still 25+ seconds to open up Firefox. :'(
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I don't want to abandon a BSD who's devs *actually* freaking use it on their home machines, and who don't do presentations on "unix bad, bsd irrelevant, linux good, systemd great" from their freaking macbooks (yes, I'm summarizing/lampooning one particular FreeBSD dev's presentations. I won't say who. They have a right to their opinion, and they are an intelligent, decent human being, as far as I know, and I wish them the best)
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I don't want to leave a BSD that has excellent manpages, freaking SENSIBLE config files, and a focus on elegance.
I'm just going to pretend that my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad X200 is a Pentium III T23 until I can get a faster box to play with #OpenBaSeD on. ;)
@RL_Dane Have you ever considered trying your hand at making your own OS ;)
A couple years ago, I wanted to buy a "The C64" and bootstrap my own toolchain and eventually OS in assembly starting with nothing more than Commodore Basic (POKEing hand-assembled opcodes into RAM from basic).
#UXN is scratching that itch, and I don't have to suffer with 40-column text. XD
@golemwire
Old souls that love old computers are excellent peeps, of any age. ;)