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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (7th Gen)

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I've always wanted to use BSD as a desktop -- it just seems so much better thought out, and laid out together as an OS. However, it's /never/ been _quite_ there -- a bit like Linux in the early 2000s. Linux, meanwhile, made the leap to being mainstream enough such that support is widespread and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to do things like add "noacpi" to the boot string. I wish the same would happen for BSD. It's just a popularity problem!

God damnit, why can’t someone just finish implementing Wireless AC support for Intel 9560 in the iwm driver already? It’s been what, a year?

Is it just too technically hard? Is it a matter of money? At this point if I could just throw down a few thousand dollars to pay for someone to finish it, I would.

Awesome work, however:

> OpenBSD would need a Thunderbolt NHI driver for that.

> requires a new Cannon Lake GPIO driver. I'll need to work on this.

> but OpenBSD does not support Bluetooth

> Synaptics 00bd via USB, not supported.

> The non-removable Intel 9560 802.11ac wireless chip is not yet supported by iwm,

Usually when Joshua runs OpenBSD on a newer device you can expect that these issues will be worked out fairly quickly (or eventually), with him being an OpenBSD developer. For example: https://jcs.org/2018/08/31/surface_go In the Support log you can see commits he's made and errors he's fixed.

I reckon he'll be using this as a daily driver, so that's even more reason to believe he'll be working more on OpenBSD support.

Planning to use FreeBSD on a T480 as my main machine. I admire OpenBSD but need/want ZFS.

FreeBSD on laptops idle's pretty hard (think; load average 1 for all eternity)

And ZFS is nice, but offers far fewer guarantees when not used with ECC memory. (although, you probably only care about the copy-on-write properties and stuff I guess)

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