I've just finished reading "Relayd and Httpd mastery" by @mwl and it cemented my plan to move to #OpenBSD. https://test.sapka.me is already working and https://michal.sapka.me will soon follow. I like the Relayd + Httpd + acme-client setup much better than whatever #nginx tries to achieve by trying to be everything.
It's the first book of his I've read - "Absolute FreeBSD" and "Ed mastery" were also great. I don't know of any other indie tech writer but I dig his writing so much! The fact, that he may be the only writer treating #BSD (my recent love) seriously makes it even easier. After finishing "Relayd.." I've instantly bought his "Tarsnap mastery". Highly recommended!
I've been thinking about an adventure with #selfhosted#email and guess what? MWL is working on a book about it!
In the meantime (so: yesterday) I migrated my personal laptop from #FreeBSD to #OpenBSD. I had to force legacy UEFI and disable Nvidia but everything just works. WiFi, hibernation, even media keys. I am floored!
@ms@mwl “Ed Mastery” is clearly supposed to be a joke but it completely changed how I approach Unix-like systems after I connected the history of Ed to more “modern” tools.
“Oh! This is why sed, grep, and vim are the way they are,” and everything started clicking.
@louis
for server: it wowed me when PF automatically opened 443 when I enabled it in Relayd. And the fact that it has Httpd/Relayd/Acme-client which are all I need for my need. I've got 99 problems but Nginx ain't one (soon). Also, seems like OpenBSD community is even smaller - I love small, tight communities.
for desktop: hardware support. Due to AX200 wifi card I have constant crashes, lack of hibernation, speed up to WiFi G on FreeBSD. It all works on OpenBSD. I don't care about nvidia, but wifi on a laptop is a must.
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