Sometimes adding a user interface to a straightforward operation is complicated, expensive, time-consuming, and/or low-priority for the intended audience. Open

Sometimes adding a user interface to a straightforward operation is complicated, expensive, time-consuming, and/or low-priority for the intended audience. OpenBSD users know how to partition and encrypt their disks. World domination was never on BSD's todo list! Don't get me wrong -- the Linux way is also perfectly valid, and obviously more popular. But it's not the only way.