I agree. Installation is kind of fun in an old-school UNIX-y way. I feel Desktop Linux spent the better part of two decades endlessly tweaking the installation

I agree. Installation is kind of fun in an old-school UNIX-y way. I feel Desktop Linux spent the better part of two decades endlessly tweaking the installation experience, as if people spend 50% of their time installing and reinstalling Linux (maybe they do?) But once the install is done, the experience is...underwhelming. Bare-bones X11 and FVWM. Yikes. That with the xenodm login screen give it a distinct 1992-era experience. I'm obviously aware I can install full-blown KDE/GNOME but the whole point (to me) of using OpenBSD is to go minimal, using secure and vetted built-ins as much as possible. If I wanted 500 Gnome packages with potentially thousands of accompanying bugs, well, I'd just run Ubuntu, right? But I also am too ....impatient? old?....to spend hours tweaking .Xresources and dealing with bitmap fonts and the whole (horrific) 1990's X11 experience. I just want a default desktop that does NOT look like complete garbage. Make it super optional and put it under the "lame-n00b" option during install. Mock me during setup and tell me to go back to WinDoze. I'll happily take all that abuse just to boot into something that doesn't look like it ran Ross Perot's campaign.