[AdmiralAsshat]

>Speed is Stellar

>Speed is not a concern for me.

Is he saying that speed isn't a concern for him in general? If so, why mention that the speed is stellar, then? Or is he saying that the system is so light in general that he doesn't suspect speed will become a problem down the line?

[sogubsys]

You're right, my mistake in communication there.

Speed is not a concern for me because it is fast for everything I use the laptop for. I didn't hit snags where things were slow.

I'll update the post later for clarity. Thank you for pointing it out.

[blackhaz]

Great stuff. Also a big fan of OpenBSD, but what put me off eventually is lack of VMs, Wine and... speed. On Thinkpad T410 (ancient) it was noticeably slower than FreeBSD almost on any task, especially video playback in the browser. Not really related to the file system use. Perhaps, the effect is not as pronounced on CPUs of these days. Software selection was also a little claustrophobic.

I'm now using FreeBSD as my main machine for almost a year - really happy with the outcome, but even there some areas, like neural networks for example, are difficult. (But Keras and Theano are there!)

In many aspects OpenBSD was amazing. It needed very little tinkering with to get running properly, configs and ps ax were super-clean. Amazing environment.

[edwintorok]

There is some work done about VMs: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html

[blakesterz]

I took it to mean something more like "I don't care much about speed because of what I do, but if speed is a concern for you, it's stellar!"

[ziddoap]

It is pretty ambiguous, isn't it?

I read it similar to your 2nd take, that the speed is abundant enough that not much needs to be said - its just fast.