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@snacks Does Wayland even work on BSDs?

@snacks Apparently yeah most of them support DRM and so Wayland. I thought it was Linux-only, guess another thing where I'm stuck a few years back.

@chjara i knew it's technically supported and assumed i'd just be able to use sway but i at least can't find it in the pkgsrc tree rn

@snacks @chjara NetBSD in general is a very "assembly required" for desktop use. The KDE packages in the ports tree are still KDE4.

@snacks @chjara Also, just install pkgin using pkg_add so you don't have to build everything yourself and have the entire ports tree on the system.

@phnt @chjara didn't work the way described in https://www.pkgsrc.org/#index1h1 but the source package guide also has issues

@snacks @chjara Check the paths in a web browser: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/using.html#installing-binary-packages

For the next time when you install NetBSD, there's an option to setup pkgin in the installer ;)

@snacks @chjara After it untars sets: pics attached

After that dhcpd should start on boot. The pkgin install option is "e" in the first pic.

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@phnt @chjara didn't do dhcp in the autoconfig

@snacks @chjara Then the install kernel didn't have the drivers built into it I guess. It should do dhcp.

@snacks didnt follow my suggestion award

@fiore there where many suggestions. I think gentoo was the only one suggested multiple times

@snacks if there is one thing that should never be recommended for desktop usage except for MAYYBE some VERY SPECIFIC cases that u definitely dont fall into , its netbsd . dragonfly too ig

@fiore @snacks i would definitely use netbsd as my desktop if it had any documentation on setting up working fulldiskencryption

@tisanae @fiore go into bios and set hdd password if your bios and ssd support that properly

@tisanae @fiore @snacks Please don't. The UFS filesystem which is the only one properly supported for root blows up if you look at it badly. One hard crash and it's likely partially gone with lost data. Same with OpenBSD.

Use it as the name suggests for network installs (diskless installs). It's great for that and small embedded systems that need a port. That's about it.

@phnt @fiore @snacks all my hdds have more than 2years of poweronhours, nothing scares me anymore :3