hd99 who really uses openbsd as a day to day operating system on your personal computer?
uxer here!
hd99 with what kind of machine?
ThinkPad T530. OpenBSD works fine on it, but T530 itself is a mediocre machine, can't recommend it
hd99 for which reasons?
hd99 what motivated your choice?
hd99 how would you convince another oss operating system user to taste openbsd, or even to have it for a longer term?
I would not attempt to persuade, but if you mean highlight strengths:
Higher code quality, less bugs, lightweight, reliable, deserves trust to a degree, permissive license.
Renown ssh, tmux and pf originate from OpenBSD and are part of it.
Over time, you not only learn how to use disparate tools, but also how the system hangs together.
hd99 does it brought you some issues with different crossed systems, eg using computer at a specific place (office, public organization..), or with some people dealing only with win/macos?
I can't share files via USB with my Android smartphone. There are mtp-related pkgs but I failed to make them work with my phone.
I can't share files via Samba (with Windows).
In antiX Linux configuring Samba was easier, I had it working. In OpenBSD antiX recipe doesn't work. There is somewhere a tutorial, but it is lengthier, so I procrastinate.
For now, Syncthing, Telegram and https://justbeamit.com to my rescue
I don't communicate with other people much, so no issues. But I would imagine troubles with someone asking to copy files to-from their NTFS external storage.
hd99 what is the impression of your relatives, or other people, when they see this rare os and how they "understand" philosophy of openbsd?
Generally, nobody cares. They see a screen and some windows in it. They don't get it is powered by another OS, if they know what an OS is in the 1st place.
Noone has ever talked to me on philosophy of openbsd.
Unusual interface once sparkled an interest of 2 organized crime bandits - they call themselves "police officers". They were called coz I was making enquiries about passport in a persistent manner coz answers given were meaningless. Having seen the interface they quickly decided they need to check whether I am an extremist or a terrorist, since why else would one use a non-standard computer? Kidnapped me, interrogated with threats, but probably found nothing indicative and let me go. Nothing serious, but an evening was ruined.
A more positive occasion, I was using a terminal, and a man who did me a favor said, in short, "I see you are good at handling computers. My laptop has no Word and PowerPoint, can you help me?". I installed him latest naval version of MS Office I could find 🙂 Didn't even dare to offer LibreOffice - they live in a world of M$, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
hd99 or just to make people understand you're using a different system?
Nobody cares, so do I
hd99 im wondering why so few people are running it..
The world is turned upside down, Kali Yuga, they say, good things are rare
szilard i had to find an OS for my computer which doesn't need too much handholding, which works OOB, wich doesn't need me to care about too much things, i start it, do the task and switch it off or send it to sleep. OBSD does just this.
Disagree. Unlike user-friendly OSes and distros, where stuff is ready to go or a click away from ready to go, in OpenBSD only essentials are pre-configured, you have to do the rest yourself, and you need to know how to do it. Official docs may be a good reminder but are no good tutorials. You have to take care to enable and monitor every aspect you need. Of course, you can set it up once and don't give a damn, but still you need to set it up 1st.
Out-of-the-box you get either 198x tty or 199x GUI. An example in the FAQ shows how to change default 199x GUI to another 199x GUI.
I am on OpenBSD coz I have spare time to tinker to try and pull it up to something moderately usable.
Had I no time, I would stick to antiX Linux.
szilard i am probably a pragmatic minimalist, so if i can't do something with my computer then probably better so. I just don't do that thing then. Fck it.
That may explain the above
neb It was so small and simple, meticulously correct (which has the benefit of making it more secure), minimum attack surface (ripping out things that doesn’t meet the standard like the Bluetooth stack and Linux emulation layer), fantastic care is given it’s documentation,
Overall quality of code and docs is higher and bugs are rarer, but I wouldn't be overly kind and call OpenBSD "meticulously correct", "fantastic" etc. Better - definitely, but far from perfect
how would you convince another oss operating system user to taste openbsd, or even to have it for a longer term?
If that was a question about yourself: you have shown interest, so you may benefit from exploring it. Nobody knows the outcome...
