Solène Rapenne:
Last month, I decided to leave the OpenBSD team as I have not been using OpenBSD myself for a while. A lot of people asked me why I stopped using OpenBSD, although I have been advocating it for a while. Let me share my thoughts.
First, I like OpenBSD, it has values, and it is important that it exists. It just does not fit all needs, it does not fit mine anymore.
Here is a short list of problems that, while bearable when taken individually, they summed up to a point I had to move away from OpenBSD.
Solène has been active in the OpenBSD project for many years. As well as contributing to the project she also wrote dozens of blogs posts on real-world use of OpenBSD on the desktop.
OpenBSD definitely has some novel ideas but has never really spoken to me or my values. The main issues for me is that it has always run hot on the devices I’ve tried it on, and the performance has been quite lacklustre. It’s good to have options though, and we’re spoilt for choice in the open-source operating system space.