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OpenBSD is a good example of an OS that tries to adhere to old school design principals while offering modern features. It has some pretty bad rough edges but is impressive nonetheless.

I use linux on my desktop but have an ancient Thinkpad that runs OpenBSD as well. I love following the changelog for each new release.

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I'm in a similar space. I love OpenBSD for it's simplicity and consistency, but, to my way of thinking, it's missing to much to act at a modern desktop replacement. To that end, I've started running ChromeOS Flex on the desktop, taking advantage of it's Debian VM where ChromeOS falls short, while still using OpenBSD everywhere else that I can and makes sense.

I pretty much love all of the free-unix but dislike them for graphical use. I have generally stuck with Windows or MacOS for general desktop usage.

I've considered a combination setup of a terminal system for my unix needs and a tablet for web and video. ChromeOS would work well for this too, I think.

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