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by znpy 1462 days ago
It’s probably one of the reasons why it’s so irrelevant.

Whereas openbsd people kept that attitude, the gnu+linux people went above and beyond to help newbies. Help not only in fixing their stuff, but also in growing and learning.

And I don’t buy the “secure by default” marketing stunt. At best you’d have to put that in the context of an OS that does a limited number of things, and does them poorly (questionable ux, poor performances). Gnu+linux is secure enough, particularly so if you compare that with the incredible amount of things it can do.

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The other thing is that OpenBSD devs (well, leadership at least, from what I can tell) don't care who thinks they are "irrelevant." Popularity, number of users, etc. is not a goal. They develop the OS for themselves, and if others find it useful, they are welcome to use it.