I run it. Home firewall, office desktops and laptops. It's pretty stable and I'm fairly familiar with it. Really simple if you know Unix. I hope it never goes away, not sure what I would replace it with. Linux is so complicated now, it's just too much for me to deal with

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ptidhomme 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, I also use it because it is fairly low maintenance. There's the sysupgrade every 6-month, but it goes smoothly every time.

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mghackerlady 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If OpenBSD dies (somehow, at this point so many things are maintained there (OpenSSH, LibreSSL, PF, Tmux, sudo kinda) that it'll always exist to a degree) one of the other BSDs will suffice. FreeBSD is bloaty but for the most part works fine enough

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CodeCompost 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What software do you run on your desktops and laptops?

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skydhash 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Not GP, but I mostly use: Firefox; Emacs; MPV; Keepass; calibre; xfe; mupdf;... Then a bunch of cli tools. There's a lot in base, so cli are mostly extra utilities like cmus, git, tig, ncdu,...

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2b3a51 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I would imagine that a lot of people who use OpenBSD on their laptops/desktops run a lean installation with one of the window managers in base (an ancient fvwm version, cwm which I find very nice and twm).

You can however have a full-fat desktop environment with xfce4 or gnome and applications like libreoffice, gimp, inkscape, audacity and so on if you wish. I've never tried KDE on top of OpenBSD base but I gather packages are in ports.

I think it is fair to say that the amd64 arch has good support. The i386 platform arch is on a 'best effort' basis these days which is understandable. I've never looked at the others.

	▲	mghackerlady 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		SPARC is well supported (mostly because it's very good at finding bugs that wouldn't be big problems anywhere else despite not being 'correct') and big endian PowerPC (both 323 and 64) is fine, though hardware can be tricky since apple products tend to be so integrated that you can't really, say, replace a GPU because the support is poor