I just want to shake the hand of the person who made the OpenBSD installer the way it is.
In case you haven't used it, it's dead-simple, command-line based, and it may take a few times to get it right if you don't know what you're doing. It's nearly featureless.
But after you figure it out, you can automate installs, and roll your own distro by changing the contents of tar files, or add your own software and configuration the same way.
It's quite possibly the most satisfyingly transparent OS install method I've ever used.
Indeed, the only distros in the Linux world with installers that even come close are Alpine Linux (which is obviously heavily influenced by the OpenBSD installer) and Slackware Linux, coincidentally two of the better Linux distros for those who prefer a more BSD-style approach to managing the OS proper.
Alpine needs a little work in the desktop OS department, and is painfully lacking in a few essential packages for daily computing, but it's come a long way in a short time. Meanwhile, Slackware is due to drop 14.2 on us any day now, and has seen vast improvements over the past few years. Both are worth a look if OpenBSD for some reason doesn't work on one's system.
But having said that, OpenBSD is a cut above any other open source OS when it comes to stability, clean code, and well written, complete, thorough documentation.
In case you haven't used it, it's dead-simple, command-line based, and it may take a few times to get it right if you don't know what you're doing. It's nearly featureless.
But after you figure it out, you can automate installs, and roll your own distro by changing the contents of tar files, or add your own software and configuration the same way.
It's quite possibly the most satisfyingly transparent OS install method I've ever used.