alt Hacker NewsI wish OpenBSD supported Bluetooth. Unfortunately, its absence is a deal breaker for me. I did use OpenBSD on the desktop it was great.
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The sole set of wired headphones in my house is for my OpenBSD laptop.
Interesting! Curious which Bluetooth device(s) you can’t live without.
That's too bad. I might need bluetooth on keyboard, mice, headphone/earbuds, etc. OpenBSD seems so nice, but right now it is limited to running as a server, and not a desktop, which could be considered a good thing, as it focuses on simplicity. However, I do wish it had more hardware support.
EDIT: Running openBSD in a VM might get me the best of both world, with hardware support on host OS (linux/win) and the benefit of running OpenBSD.
You can often build generic dongles for pretty much anything on the cheap if that really matters to you.
E.g. I use the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 for my BLE keyboard.
It should be done in userspace, but then again, so should everything else[0].
They did for awhile, but removed it due to complexity and security issues.
Firmware backdoors in wireless chipsets are a really big attack surface, and disabling wireless at least gives you the chance to monitor five eyes activity on ethernet.
* https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/multimedia/#bluetooth-audio
Removed in 2014.