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OpenBSD just isn't performant enough for me. I can't honestly say that it has what I need when I get multi-second system freezes when opening or closing tabs in chromium (though this was under 6.0)

Battery life under OpenBSD is atrocious compared even to Linux.

It's a great server OS but it's not ready for laptop daily driver use unless your laptop just sits plugged in all day.

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I use it as a daily driver for my laptop. It's quite performant. I also boot a linux distro sometimes on that machine, and don't notice much difference in battery life between the two.

They've been adding drivers like crazy for a while now, too, so there are many more hardware choices than there were a couple years ago.

Well, on my x220 the difference between OpenBSD and Debian was more than an hour of battery life, to say nothing of tabbing freezes.

I really enjoy have openbsd on a server that I ssh into.

OS X and Windows are better GUI, OpenBSD is a better place for a lot of my work... basically anything that I’d use emacs for.

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