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My impression is that most people who pretend that OpenBSD is not suited as a desktop system are either ingnorant or just outright lazy: - Ignorant on the fine work the developers and countless porters did and/or - lazy to read the documentation (or if of non-english mothertongue: too lazy to ask for help) There is NO general-purpose desktop-related task that cannot be done with OpenBSD! Full stop. ('Bling-Bling' is NO general purpose requirement!) Unless s.o. has to use some proprietary software that is tighly linked to internals of an other OS there is no technical reason to use any other OS as a basis for a desktop system - only personal likes ("I can't live without my 'bling-bling'-ads") and dislikes ("I don't want to do my homework"). I happily use OpenBSD on my laptop and on an iMac for all day-to-day work as I have to ashure my clients that their data is save on my systems. No other OS gives me that level of confidence.

You can use OpenBSD in desktop environment, sure, common tasks as; sending emails, document processing, games, browse internet, etc. OpenBSD sometime lacks of resources for run natively flash plugins, java efficiently and support for read/write NTFS filesystem from Windows; but, if you not need it, OpenBSD do a good job.