My NetBSD adventure  

                                               




This is the first time I have ever installed a BSD and actually liked it. up until recently, I had found them to be buggy, difficult to set up and frankly a waste of bloody time. until now... I think I have finally found my forever friend, in NetBSD! I'm writing this in vim, inside a virtual machine running NetBSD. And although there have been a 'few' teething problems, nothing thus far has been so bad as to put me off using this freakin' odd operating system. Indeed it is modern, simple to use and requires no previous technical knowledge? Yeah-right! At-least with Linux, it usually just works. Has a graphical installer, and only takes about half an hour to set up and have a fully working operating system. With BSD it takes hours of tweaking to get it set up, and by that point one is tempted to delete it and pretend it never really happened. Some think it gives a little street-cred, to be able to say; I installed BSD with one finger, I then spent half a day setting it all up. Maybe you are one of the elite people who can set it up in a matter of minutes. I take my non existent hat off to you. BSD is VERY EASY TO INSTALL but: it is not simple to set up. Even me, who knows my way around a computer has to eventually admit, this is a laborious task. One which I will probably do again. (I can't help it) I love to suffer for my computing. Net bsd has been a fun experiment, but I will stick to Debian on my main computer. Since I do want to actually get things done!


Another question I would like to ask is: Why couldn't NetBSD have the fish logo?




my computer running NETbsd. I'm using the very old, yet wonderfully minimal TWM. And it does a better job than some modern window managers.

And if you are wondering why I have the OpenBSD ascii in neofetch. It's because I think it's better than the netbsd logo. So there.