>Few cases for obsd not suitable as desktop: > >- At home, the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for obsd on desktop is negative >due lack of skype, and flash player. WAF: Good point! Hard to tackle ... :-) Skype: Valid argument - I have to agree that nowadays this is a requirement for a "general-purpose desktop system" (let's not discuss 'confidentiality' for now...) Flash: 'Bling-bling' is possible even with OpenBSD. But you have to deliberatly open "Pandora's box"...
>- At work, need for virtual machines on laptop is a must, not very well met >in obsd. I have no experience with virtual machines at all - looks like "special-purpose" to me. But I don't claim competency here. > >So correct answer is: it depends! Quite right, of course. "If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail" Good if we are able to choose from the right tool to get the job done. Most of time my choise is OpenBSD! Cheers, STEFAN