[yjftsjthsd-h]

NetBSD isn't a retro OS, nor is it particularly obscure. (For that matter, VAX isn't obscure, though it's very retro.)

[ForHackernews]

Maybe not for hacker news. In the real world, it's plenty obscure. Poll your family at Thanksgiving.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-netbsd

> NetBSD is used by less than 0.1% of all the websites whose operating system we know.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I would expect the same number of laypeople to know about NetBSD and Debian (zero). Which gets neatly to an argument that I like for this kind of thing: Don't be so quick to throw out the long tail, because you're on it.