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Old 20th July 2012
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post

Usability : What is it really ?
if it means desktop experience : OpenBSD+Gnome or Kde reaches the same usability summit of PcBSD .. why bother ?
Do You have these on OpenBSD:
- Flash support? (on FreeBSD You can use COMPAT_LINUX for that)
- VirtualBox or any valuable alternative? (QEMU is dead slow)
- Boot Environments or anything comparable? (sysutils/beadm)
- Opera? (does it work using Linux compatibility layer on OpenBSD?)
- Nvidia drivers? (there are none for OpenBSD as I know, this is blob but still provides acceleration)
- Graphical Sound Configurator (PCBSD ONLY)
- Graphical Jail Management (PCBSD ONLY) - if I recall there are no such thins like Jails on OpenBSD
- Graphical Network Manager (PCBSD ONLY)

If we compare 'Your' desktop experience, then even MINIX3 with some DE is usable ...

What OpenBSD can offer besides not having these?

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if it means speed/responsiveness : it's rocking fast
It probably means responsiveness under high load.

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I used PcBSD last year .. it was an easy big N slow Kde4 , so bloated.that wasn't the usability I wanted.PBIs make it worse.
PCBSD from version 9 comes with GNOME2, KDE4, LXDE and XFCE as a choice, its not longer tied to KDE4, the tools and configurators are QT4 based and work the same in all DE's, You can even customize its look with misc/qt4-qtconfig utility.

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So take your time to try & decide :-)
It would be best to try to configure the same 'requirements' on all of them and then decide.
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