Comment by myaccountonhn
10 months ago
It works quite well. The OOB experience is very complete and hardware gets picked up without issue. However you’re limited in the amount of apps and it’s also incredibly slow, so you’ll need to really use minimal, fast cli apps.
I left it ultimately because it had way worse battery life than Linux on my T480s and I also wanted to play some games with steam.
> it’s also incredibly slow
I never used OpenBSD. Why is it incredibly slow?
Disk I/O is notably slower than e.g. Linux or Windows and executional performance is generally a tiny bit slower, but nothing about it is "incredibly slow".
browsers are exceptionally slow in my experience.
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well, SMT/hyper-threading is disabled by default[0] , not sure if there are other reasons though. It's not that bad, but yeah OpenBSD is probably not your optimal gaming OS :P
[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg9...
SMT being disabled is not a reason for anything to be incredibly slow, or even tangibly slower, unless the CPU has a single core.
You could probably get close to the same experience by running your BSD in a VM when you need it?