On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 1:14 PM <h...@mailo.com> wrote: > > since few months im discovering openbsd ; as linux has been often > recommended for windows's users with a very slow system, i guess that it's > not that unadvised to use openbsd with a GUI for web browsing and little > software (eg LO, gimp..) >
OpenBSD is not linux though. It may look somewhat alike on the surface, but almost every component is very different these days. > > i have tested "recent" openbsd releases, since 2022, and almost all of > them are a bit slow with xfce/firefox etc. > > i was wondering, for laptops range of 2013/16 years old, what would you > recommmend them for a common web browsing using openbsd? > First of all, nothing except the last two releases would get any type of support other than "please upgrade to the latest stable", and security patches are not backported more than one release before the latest, so I doubt anyone would recommend running an old version. I love OpenBSD for a lot of things. It's reliable, predictable, stable, *well documented*, intuitive, but honestly, it's probably the slowest among the free software OS. Are you looking for ways to squeeze the last performance out of OpenBSD in particular, or is it more of an X-Y problem that you're looking for a good Windows alternative for older computers?
