| ▲ | idatum 3 hours ago | |
I have a Lenovo laptop running OpenBSD 8.0. What I really appreciate about it is I started with OpenBSD 7.6. Using sysupgrade, I went through every release (and syspatch) and just now successfully upgraded to 8.0. It still works great! | ||
| ▲ | kombine 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Well, I've used Fedora since 2024 on my laptop and it went through four or five major upgrades, never had an issue. | ||
| ▲ | prmoustache 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I like OpenBSD, but I don't think this is a specific reason to appreciate it as any decent OS these days has been upgradeable release upon release safely for more than 2 decades, regardless if it is a linux distro, an Open/Net/FreeBSD system, a macOS or Windows system. | ||
| ▲ | asimovDev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I agree that it's great but as an anecdote, I have an arch linux laptop i upgrade 1-2 times a year and it still works too, been that way since 2019 so went through major kernel upgrades without a hitch. Only thing that ever broke were nvidia drivers sometimes because it's an shudders OPTIMUS laptop. Last time I updated it, vibe coding wasn't widespread yet so I am wondering if new package versions will finally kill it if I were to upgrade it now | ||
| ▲ | somat 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I have an old(mutters to self don't look at date then I will feel old... Oh god it's from 2012) lenovo laptop that is my daily driver for portable ops. I run openbsd on it and... well it's perfect. sleeps perfectly, radio works well, I understand the OS. I will be very sad when it dies. I did just re do the heatsink compound, so hopefully it has many years left, but I worry about the fan. | ||