Great opinion piece. I think this is mostly the opinion of anyone that really discovers OpenBSD and gets caught up in it. Security does matter, and the developers accept nothing less than what they want.<p>My main problem with OpenBSD development is that all development is decided solely by the developers and there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much care for what others want.. which is fine, they&#x27;re doing all the work for peanuts.<p>Sometimes you just have to do things that aren&#x27;t well suited for OpenBSD (imagine updating and ensuring hundreds of OpenBSD machines are up-to-date, and running high performant threaded applications). Many things work, but that is all they do. Sure it may be much more secure than other unix or linux offerings, it may be all there is. Much of the ports are just &quot;get this to compile and work&quot;. That isn&#x27;t always good enough. Truly evaluate if it fits your needs. If there is something you want on the platform, it may be up to you to fix it.<p>--<p>Unrelated, I find it interesting that NetBSD isn&#x27;t mentioned once in this entire thread.