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Have you actually used OpenBSD? Agree available drivers/applications might be less than a mainstream linux, but for what is there, things work completely solid

• dannyw 6y ago
  If you have a mainstream motherboard, you'll likely have Realtek Ethernet drivers. These do not reliably work in OpenBSD and will hang if you try to use it as a NAS.
  • hedora 6y ago
    I’ve found when shopping for a motherboard, it’s usually $10-20 more for intel ethernet, which is a much better experience under Linux and *BSD
    • dannyw 6y ago
      Unless you want to build on the Ryzen platform for ECC support on the consumer series.
      • anthk 6y ago
        -Current works fine.
• spijdar 6y ago
  I love BSDs and try to use them personally because I like the experience, but as far as drivers go, I feel like Linux is generally on par with the BSDs. It's the userland which can be a PITA. Basically, I'm not sure there's enough of a difference to warrant someone who can already do linux to use openbsd. Diminishing returns if you're interested in hosting a media server or NAS or whatever people wanna do with home servers. That said, I highly recommend running either Open or NetBSD for a while just to get the experience. For me, running NetBSD as my only OS on my laptop through my late teens gave me a great foundation for my professional life up till now in my mid twenties. Really pleasant and simple OSes, great for learning OS problem solving too.