Mohamed salah <mohamed.a.sala...@gmail.com> [2019-08-28 16:32:29 +0200]: > I wanna put something in discussion, what's your motivational to use > OPENBSD what not other bsd's what not gnu/Linux, if something doesn't > work fine on openbsd and you love this os so much what will do?
My journey was Windows ---> ‘friendly Linux’ ---> ‘less friendly Linux’ ---> OpenBSD I (sadly) grew up on using Windows and other MS products, but being interested in computers I kept checking out Linux (Ubuntu) after a while, but I always got fed up relatively quickly because things just didn't work how they worked on Windows. There was always something I had to mess around with, which I partly enjoyed but at the same time it could be very frustrating (eg. somebody asking me to copy a few images over from their phone only to discover there's no such driver for Linux and spending two days trying to find some solution or not being able to just run software everyone else was running without problems on Windows, etc). This made me dual boot after a while and often I just fell back to Windows altogether. Then I chose to force myself to learn more about the Linux world by trying out Arch Linux, which was arguably a bit more challenging than say Ubuntu or Linux Mint. The quirks were *not* much better though. Things broke, crashed or just didn't work at all. Finally I stumbled upon some articles on OpenBSD around a year ago -- just at the right time because I think now my computing skills were finally adequate and I started having a thing for privacy and FOSS at that time. I decided to give it a try and I have zero regrets. It took a little effort to familiarize myself with the differences (such as having to use different command line options or different programs altogether), but OpenBSD has taught me a lot and I am sure I still have a *lot* to learn. I can't say OpenBSD fixed all problems I had with computers though -- for example I can't use adb to connect to my Android phone and I am unable to have UTF-8 characters outside X, but I am certain the benefits overweight these tiny drawbacks. The defaults are indeed very sane, the system is good to use out of the box. PF is absolutely wonderful. Although I like experimenting with things, I like that basically everything you might need is in the base system. Of course I must also mention the legendary man pages. I didn't have random and sometimes extremely infuriating crashes and my system never broke like a few experiences I recall from Arch. I am very grateful for the developers of OpenBSD and I am looking forward to contribute to it once I get to that level. So if you are a contributor and are reading this, thank you! :-) PS sorry about the lengthy email, I hope it's not too inappropriate -- Bertalan Z. Péter <bertalan.pe...@bertalanp99.eu> FB9B 34FE 3500 3977 92AE 4809 935C 3BEB 44C1 0F89 /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email & proprietary attachments / \ www.asciiribbon.org
