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I'd say that it largely depends on what you consider table stakes for "desktop" these days. OpenBSD has a surprisingly credible and coherent desktop story as fa
by 0xcde4c3db 7y ago
I'd say that it largely depends on what you consider table stakes for "desktop" these days. OpenBSD has a surprisingly credible and coherent desktop story as far as it goes, though at this point you'll probably be disappointed if you expect anything resembling cutting-edge GPU or Wi-Fi support (they're not sitting still on those fronts, it's just a lot of work to keep up). Gaming in general will be a challenge outside of emulators and other open-source runtimes (ScummVM, fnaify, LWJGL, Ren'Py, etc.).
- anthk 7y agoMost wireless devices will work fine under OpenBSD, and so will do Intel/AMD cards. No Nvidia.
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoI think I overstated the gap in GPU support. I was under the impression that the amdgpu driver was still not in the default kernel (which in OpenBSD implies not really being supported), but it looks like they added it for 6.6. It's reportedly from Linux 4.19, which is reasonably recent. This should support the RX 500 series, which is the sort of thing that one might actually pick up at Best Buy today.
- anthk 7y agoFor graphics and desktop related it's better to run -current. Sometimes it may break inbetween, but it's solved fast over getting a new snapshot and upgrading the packages. OFC if you are like me being paranoid over stability, get -release.