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Hardware support is rather good. Nvidia graphics chips are an issue, other than that I wouldn't expect to many issues.

Laptops are harder than desktop, mostly due to ACPI and I still trying to get a multitouch trackpad to work (I'm missing a right button).

Linux and FreeBSD has better hardware support, but when stuff is supported in OpenBSD it just works. Only exception I ran into is wireless card in an old MacBook Pro which should work but doesn't.

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> Only exception I ran into is wireless card in an old MacBook Pro which should work but doesn't.

If this was a bwi(4) card, the problem is probably fixed in 5.6: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140585757928895&w=2

Thanks, but it's an athn: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/...

I've seen others get the same error, funny enough the man page says: athn0: device timeout A frame dispatched to the hardware for transmission did not complete in time. The driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen.

Yes, that's known. Coincidentally, this came up today: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141501277608157&w=2

The device timeout message might not necessarily be a fatal problem. If it doesn't have an impact on actual usage you can just ignore it. Otherwise, please file a quality bug report so we can learn more about it.

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