I have a love-hate relationship with OpenBSD but I don't feel this "configuration debt". The whole point of it is that you don't enable stuff you don't really n

I have a love-hate relationship with OpenBSD but I don't feel this "configuration debt". The whole point of it is that you don't enable stuff you don't really need; and if you really need something, then you should make the effort to actually understand what it does and how to configure it. For this same reason, it's simply a poor desktop OS. A modern UNIX-like desktop is a very complex system, with so many moving parts held together with hacks and duct tape. As OpenBSD effectively forces you to familiarise yourself with such duct tape solutions, it also forces you to do more work than you'd want - or to stick with environments that feel somewhat basic.