Actually, I agree. I originally had OpenBSD 3.6 installed on an i386 AT box with a SoundBlaster sound card. The sound quality was rather soft, until I pumped the audio to max (and I'm not hard of hearing).
However, the dvd drive worked perfectly under mplayer. Having, never tried slackware, I installed that on the machine and now the dvd drive can't play one of the dvd's that was able to play under OpenBSD. Plus I keep getting input/output errors on the box. I never had these errors in OpenBSD 3.6. Not to mention the pain that is ALSA - golly configuring sound in linux is a pain. Why do I still use it? Well because you can hand compile (./configure; make;make install) pretty much anything. You can't do that on OpenBSD (as far as I know) if the package depends on anything major (like qt). Xine, djvu, etc... I need djvu in order to read books on netlibrary.com hence Linux. Hence basically if I want to be able to compile as many packages as possible I'll use Linux. If I want security and ease of configuration (for most non-networking tools) I'll use OpenBSD. Not to mention that OpenBSD doesn't necessitate loading modules or any of that hassel.
