The biggest reason people don&#x27;t use BSD of any type is that you can&#x27;t go into a store and buy a computer with BSD on it. At least not in any store an &quot;average&quot; computer user would know where to look.<p>As for someone like me, I used to build computers (more than a couple hundred) back in the 80s and 90s with alternate OSs to Mac (classic) and Windows but never tried BSD. I did try BeOS and OS&#x2F;2 and Corel and close to a dozen different Linux distributions (I have the Penguins to prove it).<p>At the time I didn&#x27;t know anyone else that used BeOS or OS&#x2F;2 other than me. Personally I mean. So that isn&#x27;t my excuse for not using BSD. Mostly I rarely heard about it. Now I&#x27;m old (laughing) at 55 and left BeOS and OS&#x2F;2 behind years ago and moved to Mac Classic and then Mac OS X which runs on top of BSD. That&#x27;s the closest I&#x27;ve gotten.<p>If you want more people to use BSD you really need to promote it more. Not just in nerd magazines but put out flyers around companies (don&#x27;t ask, just leave them) with an explanation of what OpenBSD is and why they should be using it instead of Mac or Windows.<p>It needs to be brief and clear and you need to make VERY clear how they find and install OpenBSD and not just, &quot;Go out and buy a computer and install it.&quot; That&#x27;s like telling most people, &quot;Go out and buy a nuclear reactor and install for the OS for it.&quot; It&#x27;s not going to happen unless you are clear and you make it as easy for them as possible. People like easy and they want to feel like someone cares and that they will be taken care of if they have ANY questions.<p>Personally I feel that one of the biggest bad jokes is that &quot;Microsoft cares&quot;. Really? Would you like to buy the Brooklyn bridge? Because it&#x27;s for sale for $1.<p>If you get everyone you know to lay out flyers at businesses with what I describe above then you may get a few more people to use OpenBSD. But be prepared to support them in not nerd languages and without any attitude. If you have emotional problems (low self esteem, and I&#x27;m not saying that YOU do, well those people shouldn&#x27;t be helping anyone else with anything) then I would suggest leaving support to other people.