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> That's an odd thing to say. I am not the OP, but I would chime in to say it is not odd. I am someone who regularly uses the entire spectrum of OSs: Windows,
by traceroute66 2y ago
> That's an odd thing to say.
I am not the OP, but I would chime in to say it is not odd.
I am someone who regularly uses the entire spectrum of OSs: Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD.
OpenBSD is very much the most opinionated OS out there.
If your view of the world is inline with that of the OpenBSD core-devs (or if you just want a minimalist OS for a firewall or whatever) then you'll get on just fine with OpenBSD.
But for many people, it could easily be the case they would be better served by "anything else". Probably Windows/Mac/Linux, but even FreeBSD is not quite as hard-line opinionated as OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has a number of great server-side applications. But there's no chance you'd ever find me ever using it as a desktop or imposing it on anyone else as a desktop !
- exe34 2y agoI'm still trying to figure out what you can adapt on windows that you can't adapt on a bsd. your reference about desktop - are you referring to background themes, adjusting the mouse speed, etc? I personally won't be interested in daily driving a bsd until they can get suspend/resume at the very least, but I'm considering trying it out in a VM. my needs are few, and I could always use the host Linux for anything that didn't fit in the VM. I'm quite tempted by the whole "you can understand the whole OS" aspect, and I always took that to mean you can therefore mould it into what you want. currently I do have a sweet setup with nixos though, it feels almost as an OS-as-an-appliance, on account of it being almost impossible to brick (I somehow managed it once, 8 years ago, but have never re-installed since).