Thank you, and yeah my wifi worked out of the box, ThinkPads really do just work under OpenBSD, I reccomend installing it other ethernet if you can however just to be safe that any drivers install correctly.
To be honest I find that OpenBSD and the BSD's in general to be a bit more intuitive than most Linux distros, that would be my main reason, OpenBSD specifically being the most intuitive, it's little things like connecting to wifi, on OpenBSD it's really straight foward from the command line but on Linux I just get a headache and I install a GUI for it, but maybe im just dumb and dont understand wpa_supplicant lol. OpenBSD specifically is a minimal OS but it's really usable out of the box, it feels complete unlike a lot of Linux distros, hardware compatibility is not going to be up to the Linux standard but I have never really had a problem on any ThinkPads. People say the performance for OpenBSD is not great and I suppose that's true as it's mainly focused on security but you can make tweaks to make it faster, I have mine in a startup script, but these tweaks will make it less secure. Also the structure of pretty much all the BSD's filesystems are cleaner than Linux's, everything has it's own place rather than being dumped wherever like in Linux, just compare the /bin on Linux to a BSD, it seems removed at first but then you get use to it and finding stuff is a lot easier, I actually understand my system now. Last, the codebase is smaller, for OpenBSD atleast, compare the GNU core utils to any of the BSD core utils and there is a difference of thousands of lines of code, but that's not really a Linux issue just a GNU issue.
TLDR: Feels like a complete OS, minimal, cleaner, more intutive than (most) Linux distros
Here you can find the repo if you want to use it. The jist of it is that you configure the source code like you would dwm, or st and then you have a very fast and light fetch program. For the ascii it takes a file called conf found in $HOME/.config/cfetch/ so you can easily change the ascii output. The repo has two ascii files one for gentoo and one for openbsd by default, check it out, critisize it do whatever.
I have a fundamental knowledge of C and I am wanting to get better at understanding C. here is an example of what I'm looking for. I write random programs to try and challenge my self with help from the man pages, for example i'm trying to create my own Linux shell right now, but I feel as i'm just using functions and not understanding what's happening when I use them, the article that I linked helped me understand what was going on with scanf and fgets more, and I'm looking for similar articles.
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