Took about 15 minutes to spin up a mate desktop with #openbsd

Thats pretty easy.

Around 11 minutes of that 15 was installing the os and the desktop packages, but im on a slow 100mbit internet. The remaining 4 or so was configuring which involved reading a pkg-readme file, following instructions in it, and setting up a few themes.

I really don't get it when people say OpenBSD is hard to set up. Its really not

When i show screenshots of my usual setup on openbsd in linux-oriented places online i'll often get questions like "how do you *even* run that? Isn't it bad for desktop?" Or "openbsd is really bad and supports nothing, i don't think i could use it" or, "you're brave for using openbsd, i could NEVER" Etc.

Ive been getting by fine for the past 4 years or so, and have no plans to switch away.

Its true that desktop on the BSDs isn't nearly as streamlined as some linux systems, but if you can put in a little effort, its actually really quite nice to use as a desktop, and in some ways, better than linux