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by uncle_j 2348 days ago
Untrue. It works better than most people give it credit for.

I run quite a lot of stuff on OpenBSD and it works for the most part fine. Sure if you are running Netflix or something at mega scale it probably won't be any good, but it works quite well for a lot of hosting scenarios.

I can make a pretty decent desktop OS as well.

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I think it's strictly true that OpenBSD doesn't do as much as FreeBSD. You may well argue that it's sufficient, but the claim isn't untrue.
Unproven that doing less is synonymous with less useful.
It can do the same stuff in a lot of cases. It won't scale as well but that is a different discussion. You can always find things another OS can't do.