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I find OpenBSD's hardware support especially lacking. It doesn't really work that well on at least 3 devices where I tried it on (all Dell laptops from various generations, 3-10 years old), whereas Linux runs perfectly out-of-the-box on all three.

Which is sad, as I kinda like the *BSD approach to things



Not my experience at all, it works very well with a new Acer laptop I own: the graphics work (Intel Xe - 12th gen processor), audio, touchpad, keyboard (and special keyboard keys like brightness), wifi... All I had to do is to download the firmware with fw_update, nothing more.

Also I was pleasantly surprised to hear they support Apple M1/M2 Macs. Asahi Linux gets a lot of press around here but I had no idea OpenBSD supported it.




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