Anyone made the jump from Linux to OpenBSD on a laptop as their daily driver? If so, any tips or suggestions for making such a change? What did you find the biggest benefit to be?
I do not run heavyweight stuff though, but that's with WiFi, cwm/dwm, Emacs, compilers (go, cc) and Chrome. I've had a bit of trouble with Firefox performance, so having to use Chrome has been my biggest hurdle.
git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters
doas cp privacy-haters/chromium/default /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh
doas chmod +x /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh
My suggestion is don't—or at least think deliberately and dispassionately about tradeoffs. UX latency really sucks.
(The painful thing is that almost none of it seems to be OpenBSD's fault—it's all the desktop applications that demand 10x more hardware resources than they legitimately need, and then degrade unacceptably when layers that actually should be less optimized, like OS things that have a safety & correctness tradeoff, do make that valid tradeoff...)