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I'm getting a new laptop.. My current one is just not up to the task anymore.. And I'm seriously considerint switching from Arch Linux to OpenBSD for security. Should I? Any reason for/against it? Mostly I code on my laptop. And brows the internet.
2 years ago · 👍 akoizumi
Depends how severe your threat model is, if openBSD has the programs you need for your daily computing needs, and how many layers of tin foil you have in your hat. Realistically speaking you're probably in the "eh, good enough" level of security with Arch, and with most linux distros. · 2 years ago
Well the worse is that you run into hardware issues with BSD and just go back to Arch. So if the security is what you want, perhaps you'll be fine with any HW hiccups if any. But you've always got something to fall back to. 👍 Good luck! · 2 years ago
By the way I moved from Linux to FreeBSD and recently testing out OpenBSD, what I like the most about the latter is the fact that it does less, even lesser than FreeBSD. · 2 years ago
The easy way to find out if OpenBSD is fine for you just create a VM and try to do what you usually do with Arch... Then mark the differences and evaluate how much you are willing to adapt to a new environment. · 2 years ago
In my opinion, the license, GPL is not really free cos it forces you to be free. BSD says take the code and do whatever you wish. And of course the security. · 2 years ago