I like the aesthetic of BSDs in general, and what is nice about OpenBSD in particular is that it is opinionated, but the opinions are mostly on point. Document

I like the aesthetic of BSDs in general, and what is nice about OpenBSD in particular is that it is opinionated, but the opinions are mostly on point. Documentation is comprehensive, and configuration can be completely derived by reading man pages. The defaults are reasonable, and the documentation is useful for tweaking things. Both pledge and unveil have made certain third party applications like Chrome significantly safer. The OS is small and performs well on older hardware. I use it on my "throw away" travel laptop with full disk encryption backed by a USB key that I keep separate from the laptop when it is not in my immediate possession. I also ported my personal website to OpenBSD. I use a variation of BCHS (https://learnbchs.org/ https://learnbchs.org/) for dynamic content. I've tweaked this framework to use serialization barriers and LMDB instead of SQLite. I can use both pledge and unveil along with some DJB style application decomposition to get reasonable defense in depth while keeping the code easy enough for a newbie to understand. Is it better than operating system X? Probably not, but really, that's not the point. It's small, well put together, well documented, and safe enough. I run FreeBSD on my development server, mainly so I can take advantage of ZFS and better virtualization support. But, many of the virtual machines I run on my dev server are OpenBSD based.