New setup

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I recently got my hands on a ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen).

I have daily-drived my ThinkPad X260 running NetBSD for a couple of years now, however it's starting to feel limited for my work requirements nowadays as a designer.

The ThinkPad X1 Nano is really growing on me. Beautiful 2K 16:10 display with great color output. Over 10h battery life (!!) on top of being feather light-weight. Keyboard is good but not great, and not up to par with the X260. Only 2 USB-C ports with an audio jack leaves a lot to be desired. The build quality however, materials, size and overall hardware design makes it up for me.

Unfortunately, NetBSD doesn't support this machine for desktop use as of yet. The next release of NetBSD (11) isn't looking to include an updated DRM/KMS stack nor updated WiFi so it's going to be a long time before I can run NetBSD on this machine for professional use (hopefully by NetBSD 12?).

So I've decided to migrate to Void Linux for my main machine.

I will continue to run NetBSD on my X260 and probably use it as a writer deck / building / tinkering machine.

Although NetBSD remains my favorite operating system, I'll take this opportunity to explore Linux again.

`` Confessions

Despite the quality issues, corporate influences and all of the mess that comes with the Linux operating system, tinkering with projects like Oasis Linux and Void Linux have been, I have to confess, a lot of fun.

Loosening my grip on the negatives and instead focusing and appreciating the positives, I can find a lot of cool stuff happening in the Linux space.

A small, reproducible statically linked (musl) distro, using a lot of minimal software alternatives on top of supporting pkgsrc? Now that is cool.

The DIY duct-taped mix-matching solutions spoke to me more than I thought it would. Having the ability to choose between a dozen of tools with varying qualities that accomplishes the same thing, is fun.

Alternative experimental software is fun.