Comment by 🦀 jeang3nie

Re: "What is the difference between NetBSD and other BSD flavors?"

In: s/NetBSD

Void is the only Linux distro I'm currently using for anything. It runs the raspberry pi that serves my capsule, and is on my Dell laptop so I can play steam games sometimes (dual booted with FreeBSD). It's a great distro. The other Linux I'd use if not Void would be Alpine. Similar vibe.

While I use FrreeBSD as my daily driver, there's a lot of Gemini folk using OpenBSD and they all have great things to say about it.

🦀 jeang3nie

2023-08-28 · 9 months ago

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😺 gemalaya · 2023-08-28 at 16:49:

@stack This is managed by xdg-utils. Look into the "xdg-mime" command, it will tell you (and let you change) which program the system will use by default to open a certain type of file. For example, to know which program will open PNG files, run:

And xdg-mime of course lets you change which program opens what:

🍵 innerteapot · 2023-08-30 at 03:01:

One reason I used NetBSD, in the past, was because I wanted to run the same compatible OS on a number of different older machines (PC, mac68k, VAX, Sun).

🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-10-01 at 23:33:

Is there a simple way to default all text to vim?

This is turning into a nightmare. Setting text/plain to vim.desktop invokes a weirdly different Vim, one that assumes 24x80 display and pollutes the screen. Maybe DWM has something to do with this.

looking for vim.desktop reveals 6 different files. The most likely, in use/share/applications, is a very long file (5K) with all kinds of crap, but seems to list vim as executable. But when it runs, it looks different, fonts, weird sizing issues. I don't have gvim installed...

Please tell me BSD does not use this idiocy and I will switch today.

Although it may have something to do with how pcmanfm sets up the environment prior to invoking vim... I should install mc instead, since I like dual fms

🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-10-11 at 02:22:

Thank you for your input. I switched to FreeBSD and am pretty happy.

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What is the difference between NetBSD and other BSD flavors?

💬 stack · 12 comments · 4 likes · 2023-08-27 · 9 months ago