The OpenBSD developers should be congratulated for the performance on this hardware. I installed OpenBSD on an X270 laptop and everything worked incredibly smo

The OpenBSD developers should be congratulated for the performance on this hardware. I installed OpenBSD on an X270 laptop and everything worked incredibly smoothly and cohesively out of the box. Everything from power management to a sensibly-spec'd console font, without hundreds of helper daemons and dbus. The breadth of software in a Linux distribution means it will never be as cohesive as this. Performance was not as good as Linux. I suspect OpenBSD is just not as heavily optimised in a multi-threaded environment, which is fine and expected. However I did start to feel OpenBSD losing its way a little. I hoped such a slim system would be good for an automated install which could be used as VMs to run its smtpd, httpd etc. in the same cohesive environment. But I found myself working against the installer's prompt-driven approach; really I just wanted some shell functions I could run to un-pack a system after partitioning it. In the process I also discovered the whole "relink the kernel on every boot for security"; actually a blunt approach of shell scripts to rerun the final stage of compilation after booting and copy it into place for next time. 372Mb of disk space is used just for this and removing it requires modification of the OS. Not saying this is wrong, just not right for me at this time and it seemed a missed opportunity in a world of Alpine Linux and the like.