[dilippkumar]

I’m currently using OpenBSD as my only operating system on my Thinkpad X1 carbon (gen 7).

Wifi works just fine. I remember that the wifi drivers aren’t part of the base install system for licensing reasons, but they provide a very simple tool that will download it and set it up.

Generally, with openBSD, if something is supported, it is supported correctly. My go to example is that my keyboard backlight controls work even from the tty terminals.

But also, if there is something that the developers don’t think they can support correctly, they don’t hesitate in removing it entirely from the OS. They removed Bluetooth support for example.

It’s not for everyone. But for me, I love the idea that I can trust my primary computing environment because the developers care soo much about the little details.

[RedShift1]

I can't say how it is for the Thinkpad but most of the time keyboard backlight control is done in hardware. You can catch the keypress event and sometimes control it from the OS but the dimming/brightening works completely independent of the OS.

[t-3]

Yeah, kb backlight even works under Linux most of the time. Monitor backlight works everywhere out of the box under OpenBSD though, nothing at all like the hackish mess on other systems.

[oynqr]

Except when it doesn't, like on T450s laptops for instance.

[hurraopenbsd]

That's what's great about OpenBSD. Other systems might support 802.11n, 802.11ac and stuff like that. But OpenBSD supports 802.11g, _correctly_. Not like Linux or Windows that support it, but _incorrectly_.