seriously the best operating system i have ever used, and i've tried ubuntu, debian, alpine, gentoo, osx, windows, solaris, freebsd, netbsd, openwrt.
it's also one of the best products i have ever used, staying consistent, being well documented, extreme application of principle of least surprise. learn it once, use it forever kind of product.
regularly scheduled updates, extreme focus on technology, hardly any politics. if we want software development to become engineering, this is probably what it's going to look like.
OpenBSD just refuses many things that are must have, like Nvidia, ZFS, .. so it's not a option for all things. For things it can do, it's often the best.
On OpenBSD 6.x, after power outage/intel drm kernel freeze I had catastrophic data losses. This is not acceptable for me on a desktop/workstation OS. Linux FS stability is better since the 2.4 era in my experience.
I wasn't quite as bad for me, but every once in a while, after a power outage (or the very, very rare kernel panic), I need to get out the laptop and the serial cable to manually fsck my headless server box, because the automatic fsck wouldn't continue on its own.
It's pretty annoying, to say the least. But OpenBSD is such a fantastic system overall, I keep using it, and just wait for them to adopt a journaling filesystem. (And have good backups.)
Look, I'm a big fan of OpenBSD (and use it myself), but journaling filesystems are many decades old at this point, and they have very clear advantages. One is not to have to sit through an excruciatingly long fsck after a power outage, with a real chance to lose data. This is not an esoteric scenario.
OpenBSD will be better once it adopted a journaling filesystem, until then nobody claimed it's "bullshit".
it's also one of the best products i have ever used, staying consistent, being well documented, extreme application of principle of least surprise. learn it once, use it forever kind of product.
regularly scheduled updates, extreme focus on technology, hardly any politics. if we want software development to become engineering, this is probably what it's going to look like.