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Advice for OpenBSD newparanoids? Anonymous 06/27/2025 (Fri) 01:58:02 No. 23463

Hello guys. I (and a couple of friends) recently switched from Linux to OpenBSD because we found it quite interesting. I'm a Lenovo Thinkpad user who used to Alpine Linux. I still loving this distro, but I wanted to give OpenBSD a try. So what would you /t/ nerds recommend to a OpenBSD newfag? I never used it (in a serious way) before. I saw OpenBSD have actually a Tor Browser port. I wonder which other Web Browser can I use here.

Anonymous 06/27/2025 (Fri) 11:02:18 No. 23467

One of them don't even know how to correctly setup Pulseaudio. Typical xfcefag

Anonymous 06/27/2025 (Fri) 11:15:18 No. 23468 >>23470

My recommendation is not using it! Really though I wouldn't use OpenBSD as a desktop distribution (it's got no gaymen support!) but also how else will you learn, you know? Great for embedded stuff and server applications where all the software is open source anyways. >Setting up a faglab? <Boom, OpenBSD. Eat your fuckin' heart out Alma Linux. >Building some weird gizmo? <Boom, OpenBSD. Don't need all that other shit in it. (realistically you would have something even lighter but it's really that versatile) >Website server? <Boom. >Email server? <Boom. >Databases and CDN? <Boom boom. It's OpenBased all the way down playa. Worth learning but not using, at least not on anything that isn't a craptop for periodic usage. I don't know, maybe when you use a computer you go on Barnes & Noble for one hour to browse cookbooks and then go to the park to play basketball.

Anonymous 06/27/2025 (Fri) 13:09:41 No. 23470

>>23468 <I wanted to give OpenBSD a try anyway. As long as I can still listening my music and surfing da intarwebs I'm fine. Also with the power of VMs I can still doing whatever I want anyway, right? Of course it's a pretty dumb idea and half of this will cost me a pain in the ass, but I don't wanna end without trying such awesome OS in a actual PC. Also OpenBSD manuals and wiki is really awesome.

Anonymous 06/28/2025 (Sat) 12:21:04 No. 23501

>this thread gets made >video about a dude who used (((freebsd))) made immediately after there is a shadow hand controlling everything and they dont want us knowing about openbsd.

Anonymous 06/28/2025 (Sat) 18:25:23 No. 23504

Tbh, first I wanted to install NetBSD as main OS on this Thinkpad here. And I actually installed it, but the experience was so goddamn awful. I was even unable to mount my Sandisk pendrive and recover my files (and yes, I used mount -t ext2fs like in the Manpages) So I'm now giving OpenBSD a try, and I'm actually having fun with it rn. It's awesome and does everything right. I installed LXQt as Desktop Environment, and now I installed Falkon to continue updating this thread (Falkon is pretty awesome btw). Now I'm trying to setup some Linux Virtual Machines "just in case". Do you anons have any recommendations at this point?

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