By SFF you are talking small form factor? To my knowledge there is only one big player in this field which is Intel NUC and I am not even sure THEY have business support. Thats a big argument for laptops, because you get proper business support compared to niche products like SFF devices.
But maybe I completely missed your point.
Idk, I wish I knew a solution, but researching didn't bring me anything. But it has come to the point that I feel KDE is not worth it anymore for me. Just didn't have the time to switch some wayland WM.
What made you go away from OpenBSD? Really curious, did you actually use it as a desktop system?
I don't understand how tinkering proofness achieved through learning "Nix syntax" is any better for the average joe compared to a the default settings of tumbleweed including snapper.
The way the autocommiting works is weird, have to use regular git commands for that. Also templating doesn't work for me. I was trying to establish a file with the same content across multiple devices in different subfolders but it kind of didn't work out.
pretty much.
But why would anybody read that in a topic about terminal file managers.
Well that sounds like miss configuration. I played one of those games without problems on Linux years ago. And performance was very good.
What is a beginner? Somebody who wants to install and never tinker with the system again? Those users should not try ANY linux in my opinion. But if you are willing to learn and check resources in the internet on how to solve problems, what better place than the best online linux documentation EVER?
The first sentence is invalid. There is such a minuscle amount of games not working on linux. On top of it, most games run better on linux (e.g. frametimes). Also your second argument is flawed and outdated. Privacy and having freedom and control is probably a much bigger driver to run and use linux on your desktop.
A bit late, but wow openbsd developers use their own distro as a desktop, you convinced me. And yes I know it might sound weird but openbsd has a special use case. Its a security focused distribution aimed at developers which want to understand the workings of an OS. Its also used as a base for some router specific operating systems.
Everybody who used OpenBSD on the desktop knows it has its shortcomings compared to any other OS if your workload extends beyond simply checking mails and surfing the web.