On that list, I can live without Bluetooth.
Do you know if:
1) Zoom works? Linux has a blob which does.
2) OBS works? This is critical.
3) How is video support with ATI/Nvidia? Will my multimonitor setup break?
The other thing which scares me is the manual upgrade process. On my systems, I've done apt-get update/dist-upgrade for a quarter century now, with never an issue.
Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
by umanwizard on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:14PM
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1) There isn’t a standalone binary, but you might be able to get the web client working in Chromium. I’m not sure.
2) I don’t know.
3) AFAIK it should work.
Using the BSDs as a workstation, rather than a server, is a bit niche. Like Linux, but even more so. So unfortunately it’s still a labor of love and a lot of modern stuff won’t be supported.
Webcams and power management work fine on OpenBSD (assuming there exist drivers for your hardware), but Bluetooth isn’t supported at all.
What I like about it is the simplicity of everything. If you want to change your mouse sensitivity, you add a line to a particular file in /etc. If you want to autojoin a particular WiFi network, you add the SSID and password to a particular file in /etc. If you want to start a daemon on boot... you get the idea. No massive complex configuration systems with giant blobs of XML that nobody understands.
Unfortunately the flip side is that things move more slowly — they won’t support Bluetooth until someone writes code that meets the system’s bar for correctness, simplicity, reliability, documentation, etc. — which might be never. But the stuff that does work is fantastic.
If hardware/software support requirements tie you to more mainstream OSs, I do agree with other posters that Arch is the closest thing to what you want, but it’s still far from perfect.