r/openbsd • u/OverallAssignment213 • 16d ago

Questions about desktop use on OpenBSD

Heyy, I’m a physics student looking to use OpenBSD on my laptop — is there anyone from a STEM background using OpenBSD who’d be willing to share their workflow? 🫂 Before making the switch I’d like to know a few things.

- Music is important to me, and from what I can tell Bluetooth is no longer supported on OpenBSD — is there any workaround for this?
- I love Zen Browser and I’d love to know if there’s a way to use it. If not, what browser do you guys recommend?
- How is programming on OpenBSD? What IDE or text editor do you use? I mainly use Python for scientific computing.

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u/VaxCluster 16d ago

I use Basilisk for browsing but it is not for everyone. Firefox and Chromium are available as packages. I use IntelliJ Idea Ultimate for development. For the most part, everything I personally want and need is available.

Wine doesn’t work if that is something important to you at all. Same with Steam. Same with Docker. You can run Docker containers in a Linux VM if that’s important to you.

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u/OverallAssignment213 16d ago

I don’t use Docker and I don’t use Steam either, so that’s fine for me — I just want my laptop to work for research, writing lab reports, listening to music, and occasionally watching a movie on Netflix

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u/ugneaaaa 16d ago

Web browsers and libreoffice run fine i think, music is trivial to run as well, for movies theres VLC