BSD people, usually networking. And people who like security (though OpenBSD has detractors). It was used a lot as firewall for critical infrastructure a few years ago, perhaps still is.
Also, installation was quite fast if you knew what you were doing.
It's my primary desktop as well. I like it because it's low churn, everything I need just works, and most of the configurations have sane defaults so config files tend to be short and simple or not needed at all.
I don't hack on the internals or build my own ports, I just use it. It stays out of my way and I like that.
This may seem like a ridiculous comment but I love that a lot of work on Linux has been to make it easy-as-pie to install/setup quickly and I feel like it's happened in the last couple years (cgroup + systemd stuff mostly). I praise docker for making immutable services commonplace, but I also love projects like cockpit from redhat + netbox + coreOS. There used to be so much technical debt that went into getting a server off the ground and monitoring it.
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BSD people, usually networking. And people who like security (though OpenBSD has detractors). It was used a lot as firewall for critical infrastructure a few years ago, perhaps still is.
Also, installation was quite fast if you knew what you were doing.
It has been my daily driver on laptops and desktops for eight years. I have run home servers with it as well.
It's my primary desktop as well. I like it because it's low churn, everything I need just works, and most of the configurations have sane defaults so config files tend to be short and simple or not needed at all.
I don't hack on the internals or build my own ports, I just use it. It stays out of my way and I like that.
This may seem like a ridiculous comment but I love that a lot of work on Linux has been to make it easy-as-pie to install/setup quickly and I feel like it's happened in the last couple years (cgroup + systemd stuff mostly). I praise docker for making immutable services commonplace, but I also love projects like cockpit from redhat + netbox + coreOS. There used to be so much technical debt that went into getting a server off the ground and monitoring it.
I'm weird, dunno if others agree ~