OpenBSD does well for the areas it focuses on.
It&#x27;s easy to admire a project that has a narrow focus.
The accolades always appear to come from those with the least amount of experience with it however. 
&quot;I use it for a high performance firewall for my mom&quot;
&quot;It&#x27;s great as a desktop on my old laptop, that I do nothing with.&quot;
It&#x27;s like hearing someone praise Steve Jobs for inventing Photoshop, merely because they use it on a Mac.
Fire up a high performance database on OpenBSD that uses a production equivalent of modern data. Setup a fileserver on nfsv3, use sshfs, or run the latest Linux version of &lt;insert anything here&gt;. Then talk about your experiences. &quot;We are secure because we don&#x27;t support firewire&#x2F;bluetooth&quot; is an invalid argument.