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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 13:39:51 +0100
D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

> I've heard about it, but I do not think they supported a laptop last
> time I checked it out, and was VM-only, but perhaps things have moved
> in the right direction!

> This is the truth! As long as I can have some basic tools, vim, xfce,
> wifi and decent battery life (oh, and suspend), I'm a happy camper!

It remains mind-boggling to me how poor power-management/laptop support
is in the FOSS world, outside of Linux (which gets it mostly by virtue
of being the proverbial 800-lb. gorilla, relative to the other players.)
OpenBSD I can understand, those people *exclusively* care about server
environments, but it's surprising how spotty NetBSD is with it, and
even moreso something like Haiku which is intended specifically for use
in a desktop personal-computer context...