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RE: Laptop
OpenBSD is way different now. Everything just works, its like a Gentoo or FreeBSD experience except no problems, also the security is very good so you don't have to do updates often.
I live in South Africa so there are plenty of people that need computers here , but even if you are in the USA there are plenty of people who are poor or live in the hood that would love to own a computer or even mobile phone, good motivation to offload some hardware :)
I might give it a shot in the near future. I just got Devuan working on here, so I'm not in a hurry to swap it for something else. But then I need more SD cards before I can try anything else, anyway.
Btw you should try nanoBSD on FreeBSD or Linux from scratch on a device without a monitor. Installing with only serial is a tough one.
I did Linux from Scratch about ten years ago. I learned a ton. I actually did a few more installs here and there of it. It really helped me to understand the boot process and getting different devices to work.
I've never been in a position where a system only had serial as an option. I've used it to capture kernel output, but not really interactively.
As for BSD, I like the GNU flavor shell utilities, the BSD ones have weird flags. Maybe I'll try out the Debian flavored BSD...
Haha what ever floats your boat.
You can install the gnu shell utilities on BSD if you want to. Glad to hear that you tried Linux from scratch. Btw you can also check this subreddit: /r/selfhosted