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Linux kernel maintainer says Al has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better" (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days 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.