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That's interesting because OpenBSD was a disaster on my ThinkPad. Dismal battery life, suspend/resume didn't work, CPU throttling was abhorrent, etc.

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I would say that your experience isn't typical. OpenBSD has an excellent reputation of Thinkpads.

It does, but I suspect that the typical use case is people who leave their laptops plugged in 99% of the time.

LOL, you might be right about that. I am guilty of treating my laptop like a desktop with a built-in UPS.

I've run OpenBSD on my Thinkpad for two years, only plugging it in at night, and everything works (sleep, resume, good battery life). Which Thinkpad model do you have? When did you last try OpenBSD? Maybe I could help.

I had/have an X220. I try it every few years and it's always the same issues. Pre- and post- cpu scaling "fix".

I have no interest in openbsd any more. Debian is significantly better in every way except for "code correctness" and philosophical license issues which are frankly irrelevant to the end user.

I gave up and bought a mac which is a certified unix and apple pays people to actually work on the non-glamorous bits. My laptop lasts nearly all day and everything works. The UX for a laptop user is orders of magnitude better in every single way.

OpenBSD is a great idea but it's a terrible laptop OS.

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