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I can only comment on OpenBSD. It’s a minimal unix system. I like the minimalism. OpenBSD is mainly a router/server/firewall system but you can use OpenBSD on a

by puffyn 5y ago

I can only comment on OpenBSD. It’s a minimal unix system. I like the minimalism. OpenBSD is mainly a router/server/firewall system but you can use OpenBSD on a desktop. If your hardware is supported everything works out of the box. Firefox/Chromium have pledge/unveil security which prevent them from accessing your file system. Something like apparmor but works put of the box. However it’s not designed as a desktop system (installing a browser introduces many security risks). They have some additional security features like encrypted swap and others. In terms of security, the OpenBSD kernel is a lot smaller than the linux kernel. Can’t have holes in code that doesn’t exist. All together it’s just a minimal small unix system. If you want to use it on the desktop, you can use it for basic surfing or 90s video games. I’m using it for fun mainly. There is no jails / docker / virtualbox so I don’t use it for coding. OpenBSD isn’t really a desktop OS, desktop users typically use FreeBSD because there are many more packages. FreeBSD is a completely different OS.

anthk 5y ago
>If you want to use it on the desktop, you can use it for basic surfing or 90s video games Why? You have PPSSPP, Dolphin, maybe some current-gen emulators, and lots of sourc ports. And fnaify for Mono games. https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/ https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/
amatecha 5y ago
There is virtualization with vmm: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html
snvzz 5y ago
>basic surfing With recent versions of chrome/firefox and 3d acceleration on amd/intel graphics, you're not limited to "basic surfing". The only reason I can think of that you would say that is that perhaps you do e.g. have an NVIDIA card (why...) and thus you're stuck with no accelerated graphics.
lcall 5y ago
After learning some things (see my umask comment etc, elsewhere here on this page, and my way around the FAQs etc), I have found it very useful for my desktop and am happy with it. Even before I learned things like tmux and fvwm, xfce etc worked nicely. (Having said that, my needs might be atypical.) Edit/ps: last I knew, it had something like 10_000 binary packages available, in addition to the base system.

by puffyn 5y ago

anthk 5y ago

>If you want to use it on the desktop, you can use it for basic surfing or 90s video games Why? You have PPSSPP, Dolphin, maybe some current-gen emulators, and lots of sourc ports. And fnaify for Mono games. https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/ https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/

amatecha 5y ago

There is virtualization with vmm: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html

snvzz 5y ago

>basic surfing With recent versions of chrome/firefox and 3d acceleration on amd/intel graphics, you're not limited to "basic surfing". The only reason I can think of that you would say that is that perhaps you do e.g. have an NVIDIA card (why...) and thus you're stuck with no accelerated graphics.

lcall 5y ago

After learning some things (see my umask comment etc, elsewhere here on this page, and my way around the FAQs etc), I have found it very useful for my desktop and am happy with it. Even before I learned things like tmux and fvwm, xfce etc worked nicely. (Having said that, my needs might be atypical.) Edit/ps: last I knew, it had something like 10_000 binary packages available, in addition to the base system.