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OpenBSD
OpenBSD is one of the best, if not the best, operating systems you can use.
Things to note
Wine does not work on OpenBSD natively. You will have to emulate it. Desktop performance is reduced from what you can expect on Linux.
Installation
Encryption
New versions of the OpenBSD installer include this as part of the installer.
Firmware
If you do not have a wired connection you will likely need to grab firmware for your network hardware before you begin and put it in the EFI directory of your install USB after flashing. It can be installed after installation with fw_update <path to .tgz>
Post-installation tweaks
Hyperthreading is disabled by default as a security consideration. You can enable it by adding hw.smt=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf to make full usage of your CPU.
Service management
Service management is done with the rcctl(8) tool.
Package management
To search a package:
pkg_info -Q <name>
To install a package:
pkg_add <name>
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