Another article by a BSD evangelist. I used to be one myself. This article does not cover the actual issues you will encounter when going from Linux to OpenBS

Another article by a BSD evangelist. I used to be one myself. This article does not cover the actual issues you will encounter when going from Linux to OpenBSD. The first actual issue is that the installer is in text and not very forgiving of mistakes. It's also a very simple installer that some would praise as a no-nonsense program but coming from Linux where graphical programs with support for disk encryption and multiple storage controllers are common this will be noticed. The next difference you'll notice is packages. You're likely used to binary packages from Debian, CentOS and other distros. OpenBSD has them too but they're far fewer than any Linux distro. Simply because the number of people (package maintainers) working on the BSD ecosystem are fewer. So get ready to compile a lot. Which is just a bad idea when it comes to lifecycle management. The next difference you might encounter further down the line is how many user space programs act differently from Linux. Like for example route, netstat, tar and many more. You might not find some favorites like lsof and ss, instead having to learn others like fstat. In my personal opinion the general state of these user space CLI programs is much worse in OpenBSD. And finally, lifecycle management is generally much worse in OpenBSD than in the major distros.