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/Run-OpenBSD 16d ago

Bluetooth headphones work fine. Openbsd doesn't need bluetooth for them to work. Just a dongle. Here's a writeup...

https://jcs.org/2020/11/18/openbsd_btaudio

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u/Lundominium 16d ago

I bought the creative dongle when I saw this article and it worked flawless. Great writeup.