It's great, if you don't need something like zoom, or to interact with those weird 'usb button' projectors or whatever.
Or video accelerated YouTube.. Or Microsoft office..
Really, I love OpenBSD, but I only really use it for (internet) networking these days, FreeBSD looks after my storage, and it's all proxmox with ubuntu 20.04 vms running k8s for apps.
Someday I'll switch back, but working as a freelancer with a lot of different customers bsds are just too painful to run bare metal (def works with ssh/mosh/tmux though!)
Zoom actually works fine under chromium on OpenBSD, with full microphone/webcam support. It just requires some configuration to enable a few things which are disabled by default for security reasons.
You can get GPU accelerated YouTube videos in OpenBSD, provided you have a supported GPU in the first place. You have to use Firefox and enable gfx.webrender.all and layers.acceleration.force-enabled in about:config. I've been able to get up to 2Kp60 smooth as butter on Intel HD 530 graphics in OpenBSD 7.0. 4Kp60 plays and drops a few frames, but my monitor is 2K so I have no need for 4K playback anyway.
Most people do most things in a web browser these days. Can't Microsoft Office be used as a hosted app in a browser, at least the bulk of common functionality?
Or video accelerated YouTube.. Or Microsoft office..
Really, I love OpenBSD, but I only really use it for (internet) networking these days, FreeBSD looks after my storage, and it's all proxmox with ubuntu 20.04 vms running k8s for apps.
Someday I'll switch back, but working as a freelancer with a lot of different customers bsds are just too painful to run bare metal (def works with ssh/mosh/tmux though!)