On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:29:22AM +0100, 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..) > > 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? > > I thank you vm >
Unless you are an OpenBSD developer, porter and/or port tester or make OpenBSD Youtube content, in my view you'd have to have a certain amount of masochism in your personality to run OpenBSD as a daily driver. Most people who do run gui have more than the ten year minimum memory spec, generally 8GB or more, which was high end ten years ago. You will find quite a few new content creators on Youtube bragging about 'ricing' OpenBSD to look supercool running suckless terminals and eye-popping statusbars. But they are usually never on for more than a couple of months and then slowly fizzle out perporting to have moved on to Arch or some other 'wonderful Linux'. Mileage may vary, but in general for people 'discovering OpenBSD', there is a lot of studying to do in tackling OpenBSD Desktop that is not everybody's cup of tea. But if you want to be part of a very select crowd and be prepared to change the system to your liking and share your development with the community, see this as a challenge. -Ampie
