- 07 Nov, 2025 *
As I continue my OpenBSD journey, I’ve learned a few things. My brain seems to be wrapping around the concepts quicker than I expected. Perhaps it was my past Linux experience and the trial test I did with FreeBSD on previous older problematic hardware. This ThinkPad P51 is working out very well and I’m only missing Nvidia drivers and bluetooth but that is expected with OpenBSD. A mouse is all I use and that can be easily connected via USB when I don’t want to use the trackpad. Wired headphones for life!
After figuring out doas and setting up a new user…
- 07 Nov, 2025 *
As I continue my OpenBSD journey, I’ve learned a few things. My brain seems to be wrapping around the concepts quicker than I expected. Perhaps it was my past Linux experience and the trial test I did with FreeBSD on previous older problematic hardware. This ThinkPad P51 is working out very well and I’m only missing Nvidia drivers and bluetooth but that is expected with OpenBSD. A mouse is all I use and that can be easily connected via USB when I don’t want to use the trackpad. Wired headphones for life!
After figuring out doas and setting up a new user correctly, I started the pkg_add process for programs like Firefox, Lagrange, VLC, and LibreOffice. I found some BeOS / Haiku icons for my Xfce theme and it was very easy to install. For a text editor, I seem to use what ever is installed on the OS like ed, nano or the default program but decided to try emacs. I also did some personlization of the Xfce panels adding battery, weather and volume.
Reading a little every day on the subject from blogs and gemlogs, I am having an easy time building this workstation. I’m sure I will run into some issues but my needs are basic for a desktop setup. I don’t plan to game on this or have specific work related tasks. The bsd.cafe community has been a great resource too.