OpenBSD Desktops Are For Hackers Only

I'm a picture guy, if a book doesn't have pictures, that's not a good book.

I have to disagree with you here. The definition of a hacker is anyone who opens a terminal and runs cmatrix.

As a hacker, I don't need a girlfriend because I'm always in.

Whether you use openBSD or Linux, always keep in mind that as least you're not using Windows server lol.

I use OpenBSD on my Thinkpad T420 and it runs great, yes hardware compatibility is more limited but it's grown over the years. Performance and battery life aren't as good due to the security features, so it's about 5% slower than Linux, but much, much more minimal and straightforward in it's administration. A couple things, All the OpenBSD developers eat their own dog food and run OpenBSD on the desktop/laptop. They also use ports, and encourage using ports. Bluetooth dongles will work, Bluetooth barely works on Linux as it is (it's buggy as hell). ZFS is overkill for desktop users and anybody whining about ZFS better be running a datacenter or your being nitpicky. OpenBSD has a robust filesystem that almost impossible to corrupt and a self repairing package manager (you can have a power outtage in the middle of a system update and it will pick right back up where it left off). Also donating hardware and asking for/donating for driver support is encouraged if done politely.

To be fair, OpenBSD actually does make a pretty lovely desktop. The main reason is that most OpenBSD devs dogfood it on their desktops (as opposed to FreeBSD devs, who tend to use MacOS more on their desktops, regardless of how they advertise the OS) and desktop actually get first-class support. It is true that hardware support is lacking (effectively, they only support the hardware the devs care about, and it's a relatively small team). And sure, there's less software available than for GNU/Linux (again, because of the small team). But, if you use it with officially supported hardware, everything JustWorks™ with minimal tinkering and the experience is quite nice.

I bet someone out there is running OpenBSD as a daily driver just to prove a point.

OpenBSD works out of the box on my Framework. It ships with most anything I need to get my work done. FreeBSD on the other hand mostly doesnt work ootb on desktops. I used Arch in the past, which was decent but less integrated than OpenBSD for my needs (lots of net/programming) Cheers

hot take. slackware is super secure too, because it has to resolve 15 million dependencies by hand. =w= I like how fast slack is.

OpenBSD ships with an X server, a display manager and 3 (three) window managers, and will autoconfigure these for you if you select the right options during install. The X server (Xenocara), display manager (xenodm) and one of the wm-s (cwm) are all developed "in house", I believe.

Literally just went on break wagecucking it and was looking for a good video to watch. Thanks based mentaloutlaw

Thank you for the shout out man! Great video as always. Never thought my channel would end up in one of your videos. 😅 Glad you talked about Root too he is a top notch creator and guy. Take care!

This is why GhostBSD is nice to use on a desktop, it's plug-and-play, very little configuration needed. It's kind of like running Linux.

Eating my lunch salad with a jobsite puppydog, and then you upload. I love you.

The answer to “Why dont you use OpenBSD?” for me is: “Because I havent ported it to my custom RISCV SoC yet”

I love FreeBSD on bare metal with a window manager. The effort put into graphical display environment variable was worth it for not having to read the internet as text in a command line terminal, and now i can turn my homework with it… I think some people expect that because Linux wants to be new user friendly, that other operating systems should cater to those ideals. If someone wants to go through that trouble to use a GUI and set it up that’s great, but expecting BSD to do what ‘just works’ distros do is really far removed from the normal use case of servers, operating robotics….

0:38 I don't fully understand network topology yet but the funny chungus pictures did make me chuckle, made me laugh.

One reason, for setting up OpenBSD as a desktop is, if the hardware (like an old laptop) has started lacking behind for most things, but still can pull a task like playing mp3, or show a DVD; then it can also be used as a timer and alarm clock. Thank you, and good night :3

I appreciate you showing other creators at the end of the video. That's a big problem with Odysee, there's no way to find small creators besides using the search.

I’d actually be keen to see your take on setting up an email server. I recently went self-hosted recently, but it was a bit rushed (bye bye legacy google workspace).