&quot;I guess people using BSD... burn an image to a USB stick...&quot;<p>I always thought &quot;burn&quot; referred to optical storage like CD-ROM?<p>Not sure about others, but when I do BSD installs I do not have to click any buttons.  I do not need a mouse.<p>I can lazily use something as small as an 8M stick for the install image.  It couldn&#x27;t be much easier.<p>With the size of today&#x27;s RAM (500M+), using the install image I can make the custom image with my personal kernel configs, utilities, and settings entirely in memory without needing to write anything to a HDD.  Then I just dd the image to the removable media.  That is the slowest step.<p>My custom images are quite small too, under 16M, and need no access to a HDD.  The system runs just fine in RAM, no swap.<p>I guess I could do the same setup with &quot;Arch&quot; but I imagine it would take considerable work undoing pre-configurations based on assumptions about how I would want my system configured.<p>Easier perhaps to just compile my own custom Linux kernel and &quot;initrd&quot;.  Build from the ground up.<p>I like the flexibility and control with BSD.  Not to say Linux does not have flexibility and control, too.  It certainly does.  I just rarely see ordinary Linux users making use of it when installing.  Instead many if not all decisions have already been made, and everything is pre-configured.  &quot;One click...&quot;<p>Kudos to the OpenBSD folks for the network drivers.