I've been experimenting with OpenBSD, and it's been pretty nice. The code is beautiful, and a lot of stuff just works. Not sure how it will behave on a laptop though.
I've found the recent P and X models underwhelming as far as hardware goes, and support in Linux hasn't been great in my experience. While I'd like to give BSD a try, I fear I'll have to deal with even more driver issues.
For example, all video out ports on my X1 Extreme are wired to the dedicated NVIDIA card, which forces me to either use Nouveau which causes kernel panics, or use huge binary blobs from NVIDIA, which I'm reluctant to do for several reasons, one of which is breaking my initramfs image and making the system unbootable.
I'm quite tired of the amount of these types of issues in the Linux ecosystem, so I'm very interested in trying something simpler and better thought out, as long as the hardware support is decent.
OpenBSD is suited for simple workstations or as a tablet substitute, but I don't think the OpenBSD desktop will quite take off, unless driver developers will return to releasing obfuscated code.
Not an expert though, might be wrong but the text makes it pretty clear
It wouldn’t fly at work for me at the moment, and I don’t do much computing at home, so I played around with it a bit on a laptop, but didn’t switch. The results were encouraging, though.
My biggest beef with it right now is the upgrade story, but that’s because I need to update my router (through a serial console!) and am afraid of what happens if I brick it.
OBSD works fine on a laptop