I make life easier, that is to say I've been writing software for 9+ years. Eschew hype; focus on delivery and performance.
Living in Switzerland 🇨🇠since 2017.
I make life easier, that is to say I've been writing software for 9+ years. Eschew hype; focus on delivery and performance.
Living in Switzerland 🇨🇠since 2017.
September 1st: This blog post was originally written back in June 18th, and it was a draft so I didn't publish it, but it's been here for so long I decided to publish it.
If you haven't already, read my previous blog post about OpenBSD where I shared my experience of switching to OpenBSD.
OK, in this blog post I am going to share my experience of using OpenBSD on my main rig for 2 whole months, and why I switched back to Linux (gasp!). I am writing this in Arch Linux which I just installed today, in case you're wondering.
Let's start off by saying, it has probably been my favorite experience from an OS. It is certainly the first OS (after the CRUX distro) that I did not feel dirty installing or using. With Arch I always have this itch in the back of my head which makes me uncomfortable using the OS.
The lack of GNU in my coreutils and ksh being the default shell was a very nice feeling.
It certainly felt weird to not be using a rolling-release OS, and I never
installed any patches or -current
so I probably missed out on a whole
experience.
All I'm saying is, I didn't leave OpenBSD because I didn't like it. I loved it!
I am leaving OpenBSD because the Node.js support on it is weak. And I know the
guy maintaining the node
package is doing his dangdest, but sadly without
nvm
or something similar one can't have a good Node.js dev environment,
and nvm
depends on the prebuilt binaries Node.js offers, which do not have
BSD versions. :/
For those unaware, when working with Node.js one often has to work with several
versions of Node. 0.10 being stable, 0.12 being the stable but sorta new
Node.js, and io.js being the absolute newest and least stable. Because you work
with different versions depending on your client or your project, you need to
switch between these versions. nvm
offers a cool feature where you can do
nvm use 0.10
and boom, your path now has Node 0.10 in the PATH instead of 0.12
or whatever.
The lack of a tool like nvm
is incredibly inconvenient, and that is why I'm
switching back to Linux. So it's nothing personal, it's just Node.js is my job
and I need nvm
.
In the future I will definitely be switching back to OpenBSD if the situation with Node.js improves, get on it devs! :)