My sister made me install it on her Intel i3 PC one time.
The installation procedure was rather easy, I just had some hiccups when configuring stuff due to my background with Linux vs how things are done in *BSD.
But security comes at the expense of system responsiveness, so if things with an i3 processor were rather slow, all the stuff OpenBSD makes to keep you secure don't help much in that regard. Still I guess for more decent specs it can be much more bearable.
Another trade-off is that you're supposed to read a lot of documentation. Questioning things are discouraged because their documentation is the holy scriptures for them and everything is already answered there, since how to start X at boot to the meaning of life and the ultimate end of the universe. Not a welcoming mindset for newbies in my humble opinion, and even less for us who don't speak english as their native language, but surprisingly (and funny enough) some of the *BSD people diss at Linux since it's the latter the popular one and not them... So yeah, if you want a secure system you must devote a fair share of time into reading (technical) documentation, but surely you'll learn a thing or two.
I personally couldn't bear pkg/pkgsrc at all - I'm so used to Portage it felt so restrictive in terms of customizability. But if you come from, say, apt or rpm, it would be fine I guess. I heard even KDE is available for it so it seems they're working hard in making more software available for them.
Still it seems nothing beats OpenBSD in terms of security so it will be a great choice for you.
From what you wrote, it would be interesting if FreeBSD might be something you might enjoy more. Better SMP support, ports, Linux emulation for example
The installation procedure was rather easy, I just had some hiccups when configuring stuff due to my background with Linux vs how things are done in *BSD.
But security comes at the expense of system responsiveness, so if things with an i3 processor were rather slow, all the stuff OpenBSD makes to keep you secure don't help much in that regard. Still I guess for more decent specs it can be much more bearable.
Another trade-off is that you're supposed to read a lot of documentation. Questioning things are discouraged because their documentation is the holy scriptures for them and everything is already answered there, since how to start X at boot to the meaning of life and the ultimate end of the universe. Not a welcoming mindset for newbies in my humble opinion, and even less for us who don't speak english as their native language, but surprisingly (and funny enough) some of the *BSD people diss at Linux since it's the latter the popular one and not them... So yeah, if you want a secure system you must devote a fair share of time into reading (technical) documentation, but surely you'll learn a thing or two.
I personally couldn't bear pkg/pkgsrc at all - I'm so used to Portage it felt so restrictive in terms of customizability. But if you come from, say, apt or rpm, it would be fine I guess. I heard even KDE is available for it so it seems they're working hard in making more software available for them.
Still it seems nothing beats OpenBSD in terms of security so it will be a great choice for you.