Re: Why don't you eat your own dog food?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, at 01:19, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question is mainly to the FreeBSD developers, as the title
>  say, why don't you eat your own dog food?
>
> I don't think I have ever seen anyone from the FreeBSD project
> giving a presentation, or doing a live stream, or a YouTube video,
> or anything else in which you can see the persons computer
> screen, in which he or she runs FreeBSD as the desktop
> operating system. Either it's Mac OS or Windows.
>
> So, what's up with that?

Well, we do. Maybe you just need to look harder? Proving the
absence of something is much harder that showing its existence.

I did my 2017 BSDCan talk using the (new at the time) drm-next
code on a little FreeBSD laptop. You can't tell from the conference
video though, because its full screen presentation.

This is sent from my FreeBSD desktop. Yesterday I did a conf call
in zoom, via firefox. Last week I did a presentation for a local
BSD user group, on my FreeBSD desktop as usual.

I was able to use FreeBSD because an awesome group of kernel &
ports developers worked on this together to make this happen.
  
If you want to do a screencast to a very large group, you may
find that closed source tools like zoom do a better job.

Or that the event you're presenting at, uses / requires something
else, and it works on Windows only.

No shame in using the best tool for the job at hand. Pragmatism!

Many people do their dev work on whatever their corporate overlords
mandate. If I do my dev work on MacOS, or used a Windows editor,
does that somehow de-value my open source contributions? I don't
think so.

A+
Dave