You can still use search engines, but once you learn your way around the documentation, you might find it is more reliable and quicker. To me, it seems worthwh

You can still use search engines, but once you learn your way around the documentation, you might find it is more reliable and quicker. To me, it seems worthwhile to have fewer 0-day bugs to worry about, and more reliable separation between user accounts (fewer privilege escalation bugs, etc etc). (I also recommend setting default umask to 0077 for the same reason, except while using pkg_add -- I have a wrapper script that undoes it temporarily for that due to issues encountered.) There are reasons people use Windows or Apple (perceived convenience), and reasons not to (long-term cost/benefit decisions for known uses). In case it becomes useful to anyone: One way to traverse the docs is (occasionally helpful) is using something like http://man.bsd.lv/ http://man.bsd.lv/ for OBSD docs, like putting in an "=" (w/o quotes) in the search field then clicking "apropos" shows all the commands -- a useful way to learn "what is available in the base system"; or doing full-text searches (can be learned locally, I have an awkward script for it if needed), (Edit: s/what is available/what is available in the base system/ .) And: I find the ~"only 2 remote holes in the default install since about 1996" to be very impressive. Edit: Another way to look at it might be by priorities. I have come to see priorities of some systems roughly as: OpenBSD: security, openness, correctness (including of documentation), portability. Linux: features, performance, openness, breadth of everything, compatibility, convenience (distributions vary in specifics of course; debian and/or devuan continue to impress me in their own way). FreeBSD: performance, stability, openness. NetBSD: portability, stability?, maybe enjoyment for its developers, openness. (I know least here.) Windows / Apple: profitability while targeting preferences of specific groups who want different specific kinds of convenience, it seems.