Why I'm coming home to OpenBSD

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I'm a little skeptical of using an OS as a work machine that I can't/won't deploy to for my work. (I write network services and web apps that run on Linux servers.)

I also have a long and storied history of despising ports. I'm convinced that people that actually like ports have nothing better to do with their time than compile/tweak packages.

You are right about wasting time in compiling ports. That is why I like OpenBSD where packages work - similar to that of the Linux world.

The ports system is for developers only. Not recommended for end-users. Binary packages are the way to go. It's emphasized in the FAQ multiple times and also across most tutorials and mailing lists.

So your statement is just uneducated and ignorant.

It doesn't get emphasized in the FreeBSD community at all, maybe it's different for OpenBSD.

Of course it's different. There are two, almost entirely, different projects. That includes the documentation.

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