I discovered
OpenBSD in 2011, when looking for an alternative OS for my antique P3 Win98 laptop.
I tried several Linux distributions, but only
Debian was light enough for my machine.
And I was not really satisfied with Debian.
Then, I tried OpenBSD 5.0 and fell instantly in love with it.
Never changed, except for an upgrade to 5.1.
The console installation is so easy, and the OS is free, functional and so fast.
It gave my old laptop a new life.
Later, I virtualized several OS, but none ever outmatched OpenBSD.
OpenSUSE could be a solution, but still too heavy compared to OpenBSD.
Same observation with
Solaris/
OpenSolaris/
OpenIndiana.
PC-BSD is really really too heavy, and really really too slow !
But the worst is
Ubuntu.
I tried Ubuntu, but the install process is soooo long, soooo slow and soooo painful...
And Ubuntu is just awful to use, just like a urchin in the ass
Even Ubuntu's site is painful.
Now, I only use open source applications, then I can use any machine/OS, it doesn't really make a big difference : Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, Bluefish, Filezilla, Qt, PostgreSQL.
So, I use OpenBSD by choice :
Quote:
1. free
2. functional
3. secured
4. light and fast
5. easy
6. very well documented
7. when You start your machine, a GUI is not imposed
8. the shell is a pleasure
9. it's easier to install Qt on an OpenBSD machine than on an OS X machine 
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