On 10 June 2017 at 06:55, Nicolas Schmidt <schmi...@mathematik.hu-berlin.de> wrote: > >>> On 06/09/17 15:39, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: >>> Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system? >> >> You? No, I doubt it. > ... >> But, you are welcome, and invited > ... >> Nick. > > Nick, I don't think you were being either welcoming or inviting there. > > To answer OP's question: Yes of course you can, and I did so in the past. The > experience wasn't bad, although of course using any free Unix as a desktop > system is guaranteed to deliver some pain at least (don't expect it to "just > work").
I disagree a bit. Over the years, I've run a variety of Linux systems, plus all the BSD systems, including Dragonfly. Quite awhile ago, I settled on OpenBSD as my primary system, and I run it on all my machines where the hardware is supported, which pretty much means something other than Nvidia video hardware (I have one such beast, on which I run Slackware). Installing OpenBSD is as painless as any of them and probably takes less time than any of them to get to the initial boot-up. I have a script that sets up PKG_PATH and then pkg_adds the packages I need. I run a minimal setup, with a window manager and a few supporting applications, e.g., dmenu, rox, I do find that I have to modify the default datasizes in /etc/login.conf to prevent firefox from running out of memory and collapsing. I also set up an /etc/doas.conf (thank you Ted!) so things that require root privileges can be done without a fuss. I've chosen this system because of the attention to security, its quality (it is just rock solid), and the documentation (the best, by a significant margin). Performance was an issue for me in the past, but that is no longer the case. I've gotten the impression that a lot of effort has gone into performance recently and it shows. I run 'current', by the way, and the only problems I've encountered were my own doing. /Don > > Nicolas
