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by morganvachon 3700 days ago
Indeed, the only distros in the Linux world with installers that even come close are Alpine Linux (which is obviously heavily influenced by the OpenBSD installer) and Slackware Linux, coincidentally two of the better Linux distros for those who prefer a more BSD-style approach to managing the OS proper.

Alpine needs a little work in the desktop OS department, and is painfully lacking in a few essential packages for daily computing, but it's come a long way in a short time. Meanwhile, Slackware is due to drop 14.2 on us any day now, and has seen vast improvements over the past few years. Both are worth a look if OpenBSD for some reason doesn't work on one's system.

But having said that, OpenBSD is a cut above any other open source OS when it comes to stability, clean code, and well written, complete, thorough documentation.