<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Andreas,</div><div>> too complex (eg. signal, visual studio code)</div><div>both of these are electron based apps. We don't have an electron js package on OI ?</div><div><br></div><div>> or closed source (eg. whatsapp)</div><div>Does the web app linking work? On desktop I have always used that, way more stable and less cranky than a native whatsapp desktop app.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">> while macos is my first</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Try a fantastic open-source OS like pop_os instead. Many folks are using that one exactly for all those purposes. If you're using AI tools for photos you probably don't need much fancy desktop photo editing apps anymore.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><br></p></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM Andreas Wacknitz via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>> now i just swap the boot discs. Its far easier....
additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)</div>
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For what purposes do you use OI?</span></a></p>
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I am not Stephan but will nevertheless try to explain my setup.<br>
I see OpenIndiana as a workstation platform that can also be used as
a server platform.<br>
(OmniOS is in my eyes the exact opposite: it's a server platform
that can also be used as a workstation one.)<br>
Of course many things are still missing in OI due to lack of
resources,<br>
some of them most probably will never appear on it because they are
either far too complex (eg. signal, visual studio code) or closed
source (eg. whatsapp).<br>
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I use OI as my secondary operating system while macos is my first.
This is due to the fact that I want or need to use some software
that is not available on OI (eg. sophisticated photo editing, tax
declaration, video conferecing, ...). Of course I use OI on my own
home server, too.<br>
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I have started to use mixed OS installations on single disks in the
far past and stopped that when disks became affordable. The
following time I have been using the multiple disk approach that
Stephan mentioned. Partly I am still using that but I also have some
old workstations (eg. Fujitsu W530) which are really cheap nowadays.<br>
This is my preferred approach today because I can install any OS I
want to experiment with on them without hesitation.<br>
Usually all of them run OI, though. That's because I need test
platforms for fundamental changes which have many implications on
other packages. But I only need this because I am one of the OI
maintainers.<br>
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I already tried to explain in a previous reply why OI is my
secondary OS. Everything else I tried (and I tried a lot) has
drawbacks that make me prefer OI over them. One important reason is
that as a maintainer I can change/influence what and how OI provides
software easily. It is quite easy to become an OI maintainer (I know
this for sure as I am in a position to add maintainers); I think
it's almost as easy as becoming a maintainer of your own operating
system.<br>
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Furthermore, OI as a successor of OpenSolaris, has some mostly
hidden features that can only be found by intensive use of OI. The
typical distro hopper who always seeks for a better environment
spending his/her time installing/collecting operating systems (or
simply Linux distributions) won't be able to find because a couple
of minutes is not enough to find and understand them.<br>
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Andreas<br>
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<div>> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice”
and “partition”. They are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr
case and “partition” for everything else.</div>
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<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Just to share my humble opinion..</p>
<p>Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too.
These slices never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is
whole disc' - why no. 2??) </p>
<p>Especially for new users without solarish bachground a
tool that is 'like fdisk' would be handy - i really
don't like format and fdisk cause i don't really know
what they do :-/</p>
<p>On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are
sort of this, for 'modern' GPT disc labels. <br>
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i
don't need anything else anymore.</p>
<p>For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one
case i did pre-partinioning to create a pool that is
smaller than whole disc for later mirroing..,<br>
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.</p>
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<p>~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i
just swap the boot discs. Its far easier. <br>
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)
really free spare time to create something more
productive.</p>
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<p>Just my 2 cents,</p>
<p>Stephan</p>
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