[dlevine]

When I was in the college in the early 2000s, I had a friend who ran OpenBSD. He always sang its praises, mostly because it was the most secure operating system.

I tried a bunch of Linux Distributions and FreeBSD before mostly settling on MacOS, but never actually got around to running it.

Glad to see OpenBSD is still being actively developed.

[somat]

I love obsd A perhaps unjustified amount, but not because it's security, I like it... well it's hard to explain, it's a small understandable system, but it's not a minimal system, there are enough built in services to put any linux distro to shame but they are all small, well built, well documented services, the OS as a whole hits well above it's punching weight. I find obsd makes for perhaps the best unix desktop system, but I don't mean desktop how mac or windows or even the linux desktop environments mean desktop. It is far simpler than that, I mean unix command line, window manager only style desktop. There is something about it, something that I find hard to put into words, but may be best described as comfortable.

But honestly, despite all that it's mainly what you are used to. I tolerate linux, it is one of the good guys, fighting the good fight and all that. But I still find it a bewildering mess compared to obsd. I am sure a primary linux user feels the same way about obsd.

[Flamingoat]

I used to use it at University after one of the guys I was in labs with was using it for his daily driver. The first release I tried was 3.8.

It was quite a shock coming from SuSE 9.2. It was much easier to install than FreeBSD, however the installer is even more archaic than FreeBSD. Someone wrote a graphical installer years ago and but nobody bothered with it.

The BSDs really need at least something like the archinstall.

It is certainly different than Linux. You really need to read the FAQ and manuals as you won't find much out by doing a web search, unlike Linux. One of the other things that differs from Linux is that supported hardware / software will work, however Linux hardware support is obviously a lot better than in 2005 when I first started looking at OpenBSD.

[somat]

Hard disagree, the Openbsd installer is the gold standard to which all other installers compare poorly.

When I picked a linux distro to put on my system to play games on, the one I choose was void linux, why, mainly because the installer looks and feels directly ripped off from obsd.

[assimpleaspossi]

>>The BSDs really need at least something like the archinstall.

For what it's worth, I've never been able to properly install Arch or Gentoo but I can install FreeBSD in 10 minutes.