I was thinking of doing something similar. But I was thinking of starting on a virtual machine or shell account before trying to install on real hardware. I don

I was thinking of doing something similar. But I was thinking of starting on a virtual machine or shell account before trying to install on real hardware. I don't know much about OpenBSD but my guess is that finding a laptop that runs OpenBSD flawlessly is not easy. So odds are you're going to be spending a lot of time troubleshooting and debugging. If that's ok with you, then that's great. ThinkPads might be your best bet. Someone here has cataloged their experience with OpenBSD on laptops: https://jcs.org/openbsd-laptops https://jcs.org/openbsd-laptops