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I actually didn't like the post, I hate the notion that one person using something means others should, but that's besides the point.

I use openbsd daily as my work machine, and sure, it has some quirks (chrome used to lag something fierce and it's still slow even now, wifi will randomly start lagging out and dropping packets etc;)

While I personally can get around all day every day on openbsd with only marginal problems, I wouldn't push it on everyone like I did with linux, because while I can do everything I want to do with openbsd I'm fully aware it can't do the more 'advanced' things which have just made it over to linux (games, for example).

and that's ok. I'm definitely not crippled or even hindered by using it, so it's not comparable to freedos in my opinion.

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> I actually didn't like the post, I hate the notion that one person using something means others should, but that's besides the point.

I'm sorry if it came out that way. The intention of the post was totally opposite. I was referring to the fact that Linux on the desktop already happened for a lot of people (including me) and that OpenBSD for a lot of people is already on the desktop in the same way. I'm happy with people using whatever system suits them, the whole thing was just a comment on recent tweets & comments online about 2016 being the year of the OpenBSD desktop.

Already said why it was inaccurate. That said, had it just been "Whose using OpenBSD on the Desktop!?," then it would've made a good write-up and list. I still enjoyed seeing the list and your community's little triumphs of having the desktop despite the challenges you all face getting there. I respect that. :)

Good assessment. To be clear, the comparison is kind of narrow. The claim is that one person (or a few) functioning in their use case day to day on it means it's "ready for the desktop." Remember what desktop we ran businesses and home stuff on before Windows? And which version has been updated probably the most? ;)

Many Fortune 500 companies run on terminal apps to a large degree even if many put GUI's on front of them. So do a lot of warehouses and retail stores. Doesn't really hinder them day-to-day. Just not convenient, flexible, and so on as modern IT. FreeDOS is certainly not comparable to OpenBSD or anything but seems to show the folly of "someone uses it day to day so let's call it a real desktop and ready!" Suddenly, the word desktop gets much less meaningful really quickly.

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