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This roughly matches my experience with OpenBSD. OpenBSD and any software that runs on it is absolutely rock solid.

However, it's not necessarily easy to install any of the mediocrely-written, but possibly useful, software that is abundantly available for Linux.

This may or may not make sense depending on what you are doing.

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If it would be that simple, everybody would be running Microsoft Windows.

Oh, wait...

(It's sarcasm. I think Win8 is actually really nice in some aspects even if inferior to everything else overall.)