OpenBSD gets this right, they have clearly defined their global audience as being the “secure OS”.
Note: they have not defined their audience as “BSD”. It’s just the “secure OS”.
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FreeBSD problem is they haven’t defined their audience.
People use FreeBSD because “it’s the performant BSD”.
But that then begs the question, “why use BSD”?
They need to define their audience.
No list of features will do that for you.
True but what's funny is I use OpenBSD on my laptop because it "just works" and is super simple to configure and maintain. The security part is a nice side effect! I don't have to fiddle with Xorg.conf, suspend/sleep just work right out the box, lovely.
Bluetooth is nothing but pain for me on every OS on all hardware I've ever used, especially Windows which I use for work on a daily basis.
> but definitely not for everyone.
And it doesn't have to be, that's also what keeps it simple.
Unfortunately people like what's familiar... and so to really appeal to the masses you have to inch further and further away from what actually makes plan9 different from everything else, at least visually.
I've ran: Windows, Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD on it and OpenBSD is the one I've gone back to and kept because everything works out of the box (except maybe the fingerprint reader - not sure because I don't use it anyway)