On Nov 19 16:37:25, za...@gmx.com wrote: > I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After > reading many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or > most OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals. > I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in > terms of IT expertise? That is, who are simple computer *users*, not > IT professionals?
My whole family, none of whom have anything to do with IT. > I need to know this because I am starting feeling that, as an > average computer user, I might be out of place here. > I was attracted > to OpenBSD by its security-by-default philosophy. Admittedly, I > don't know much about security and I would not be able to set the > proper security settings on my own, so I have decided to adopt > OpenBSD and use it for simple day-to-day tasks, as a desktop OS (as > I would any popular Linux distribution). Does this choice of mine, > and its underlying reasoning, make sense? It depends, of course, on your requirements. If, for example, there is a certain application that you absolutely have to use, and it only comes as a Windows binary, or a Linux binary, then of coure you are out of luck. But you would have noticed that by now. For a "simple day to day use", my wife uses the current/macppc I installed for her, with fvwm2 on top, without even knowing what OS it is (or what an OS is). > Are there any significant drawbacks to my adoption of OpenBSD (such > as OpenBSD being too technical and too difficult, as compared, say, > to Linux distros)? After some time with OpenBSD, you might actually appreciate the _utmost_simplicity_ of OpenBSD, as compared to Linux or Windows.
