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I heard this and installed OpenBSD on my thinkpad only to find out there is no support for nVidia. I suppose you need ATI or Intel video to get a working X.

There is a brief warning about nVidia here: http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html

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Everybody else supports nvidia chips by running a big blog of proprietary code in the kernel. That kind of defeats the purpose of openbsd, right?

That's it in a nutshell.

Debian doesn't support them with a big binary blob; by default, it supports nvidia chips with an open-source driver (nouveau), which works fine for most things other than 3d gaming. It just hasn't been ported to OpenBSD yet, though there is interest in doing so [1].

[1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html#nouveau

Check wifi adapter support also (in general, not specifically on ThinkPads).

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