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Old 22nd October 2023
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No offense, what are you really trying to get answered ?

I saw the LQ question and I thought some of the answers where OK. I think if the answers do not answer your question, maybe you need to re-think the question

I would suggest you visit www.openbsd.org and spend some time reading it to see if the answer is there.

for me, the main "issue" with openbsd are just the following :

-bbig lack of just common hardware : graphical card, plus networking ; the both xorg without hw acceleration, everything done by cpu with a low VGA resolution (pikebu nvidia), plus the situation regarding about one over two wlan chipset are not supported, might freak or just even stop the interesting feeling of geeks, nerds or other engineers or general public (passionate guys) to see about it. Have only 1 usb port, can't do with a "usb wlan stick", especially when I have usb storage devices to use..

-the slow experience of the system : in a way, as linux is very known or choosen, especially, for old computers, i still can run LMDE on 2013 laptop without it going "so slow", even with 10 FF tabs opened, a LO or thunderbird with hundred of mails, and a gimp activity : it runs. With openbsd, just FF with 2 tabs and a gimp, you feel the mouse being like not following the movements.. or even freezing until xorg crash

i admit i have to thank for this initiative, the simplicity, purety of code or even the "high-level secured" criteria of that project, who diserves probably the 8.5/10 mark (of 30 reviews) of distrowatch.
i admit i liked the isotop french frog project, whom makes "easier" to taste the desktop/laptop part of that system.
yeah, i do like openbsd.
i do like blogs about it, too.
but i dont use it regularly : with my ~10yo hw laptops army, either hardware (first point) or slowness makes this just a bit unusable for big-web-browsing (and i seriously regret it) [about 10-50tabs simultaneously) that lmde supports without crying.

On another hand, i still enjoy to see that system being developped as a cousin of linuxes, a bro' of *bsd, and to get "still actively developped" where several linux projects just get down and abdandonned over the years. Openbsd looks like just a bit that the "plan/front9" for non devs users : accessible and working. But the thing is well, "basics" usages of openbsd shown on various blogs, shows mainly that they are running basic software for a moderate usage (web/mail) with... recent machines.

and here is a bit why i lost the hope to adopt it, i use old computers with ""recent"" linux (aka >2020), where i experienced slow openbsd running just few tabs/sofwtare compared to linux. Is that unix so different? I dont know, im not an expert I tried to be an user (an i then discovered cwm/dwm with isotop), but those two first point could really discourage lot of win/mac/nux new comers, especially ones, like me, who use their old machine to test it.

i just hope i will see that with "common brands/hw" :
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=arti...20220126191703


i would really find interesting to see :
*openbsd accepting on demand/optional wlan/graphical devices to be supported by the system (a bit like debian new choices)
*openbsd getting involved in mobile os projects (with linux : sailfish/meego, ubuntu, postmarket... common, only ios does bsd stuff, no alternative?)

then, i think i will try to "quad boot it" with win/lmde/haiku/obsd (have only 2 laptops in that possibility, others are just graphicsboard/wlan unoperate..

thank you for reading, sorry for having launch that debate, even if for new bsd comers (i didnt really tried the free/net, just open) it's still **very** intestersting to see your all participation (i assume largely post this on several boards, i just forgotten reddit )

Last edited by hd77; 22nd October 2023 at 12:37 AM.
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