[OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Rolf,

Can you go into details on how SRM/projects is an issue for you? This is 
the first time I hear it mentioned. Would love to hear how more and how 
you would like to use it.

-Till

On 03.02.25 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote:
> Hi,
> this thread is actually very welcome to me.
> 
> I had 2 issues that refrained me from using OI as a regular
> desktop system, that was the rather old firefox, but as far
> as I know, Carsten Grzemba made this problem vanish, thanks
> for that, it was a key issue. And a lot of driver problems
> with older Nvidia boards, sorry we are still on old hardware
> here:)
> Another point is some problems with resourcemanagement. Having
> multiple leftover Fujitsu-Futros netbooting NetBSD to then
> calling XDMCP-sessions from one OI box in the back, I had SRM
> configured as per user project. Bad thing if a user exceeds
> their limitations, the x-server is killed, killing all other
> x-sessions. This in fact was a show stopper, leading me back
> to FreeBSD. We are mostly running xfce, twm  and alike, no
> gnome or mate, they are too slow and unhandy to our users.
> 
> Another point, at least on notebooks, is the lack of wpa-psk
> support e.g. wlan-login to eduroam etc. This lead us to use
> FreeBSD on most notebooks as well. Most single desktop boxes
> run OI or MacOSX, in fact, we don't use windows on any of our
> boxes because of, well, we don't like the look and feel of it
> and, there is no zfs underneath:)
> 
> so with me it is SRM/projects and wifi w/o wpa-psk and the
> like
> 
> /Rolf
> 
> 
> Quoting Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hello all
>>
>> During FOSDEM I had a talk with a couple people about Desktop 
>> Painpoints and how they would like to use OpenIndiana as their daily 
>> driver but a couple of things are just not working or toomuch effort.
>>
>> In a first step to address those I would also like to collect Feedback 
>> from the community on those Painpoints and collect other Reasons 
>> OpenIndiana does not work as a main driver even if you want to use it.
>>
>> What are your Painpoints?
>>
>> We currently know of
>> - Missing WebRTC and thus Chatapp(Teams, Google Meet, Jitsi) Support
>> - Old Wifi stack
>> - Graphics Card support (AMDGPU and newer Intel)
>>
>> Please also feel free to drop comments on those listed above. Or list 
>> which Apps force you to use Windows VM's for Work.
>>
>> We hope to build a good COntributor base that doesn't mean we will 
>> address every painpoint. But it should be good enough so that People 
>> feel compelled to Contribute the last missing piece.
>>
>> Looking forward to your answers
>> Till
>>
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