[jyrkesh]

Honestly, I'm shocked you got OpenBSD running on a laptop at all. I've tried running it both on bare metal x86 hardware and in a Hyper-V VM on two different boxes, and spent hours failing to get it to recognize my network adapter or get an IP. Gave up....

I should caveat: OpenBSD is INCREDIBLE, and we owe it the world (honestly, for OpenSSH alone, but the rest of it is an absolute gold standard too). And I know I could've gotten there.

BUT, FreeBSD just worked for me out of the box on both.

Haven't run NetBSD, but with the native Wireguard support in there now, I might have to throw a NetBSD gateway into my homelab.

Anyone have any good recs on prosumer routers / switches that run NetBSD well?

[SomeoneFromCA]

In fact you are wrong. OpenBSD is well known to work on laptops "out-of-the-box", but FreeBSD it was for quite a long while impossible to make properly working suspend/hibernate.

[wahern]

OpenBSD is known for working very well on the particular laptop models that the developers prefer and regularly use.