What's the downside of openbsd, if any?
I never tried to install it so I never got into the debate linux debian/arch vs openbsd
Hardware compatibility can be a bitch, eg. no bluetooth, no nvidia and no 3d performance.
However my impression of it was that it's very clean and what's there actually works. Porting software from Linux to BSD can be interesting, eg. Linux has file descriptor signal handling and BSD does not but there are many other differences.
Hm
Haxe doesn't seem to exist for openbsd https://haxe.org/download/linux/
However it seems possible to build from source https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/building-haxe.html
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Is that oopenbsd's pain in the ass? Need to compile everything all the time?
http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/#Minimal
however this looks great
Lots of stuff doesn't exist for Debian and Windows, but when you're used to a certain software stack and you change platforms you're bound to have some saddle sores.
I would do BSD in a second if I didn't do servers. There aren't enough BSD vps providers to make it dirt cheap like with linux where you have tens of thousands of providers and can find someone among them whose priced really low. And I like running the same software on my personal computer as my servers because I can play around and run the same code elsewhere.
But yeah, except for that narrow issue I would be on BSD in a heart beat. It's fast too. And having a full feature desktop environment is as easy as it is with linux. The compilation of code is what's shocking fast. Compiling and running Gnome Cinnamon took about as long as it takes to install all the dependencies from a repo if you were installing it on Ubuntu. (Yes I used to use gnome cinnamon, I have better taste now).
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