Maybe staying near the hardware is incompatible with an "immediate convenience", but if you spend time learning and nerding on it, it become the most convenient way to use the pc.
On openbsd, after reading a bit of documentation, the command line solution become simple and convenient, and easily extensible with scripts.
On linux, even after nerding on low-level stuffs you still encounter anti-patterns, inconsistencied and disfunctions outside of your control.
Linux supports a much wider set of hardware. I don't know how long you have used Linux, but I remember the time when making WiFi function would require a lot of work thanks to shit manufacturers (like Broadcom). That's not the case any more. But for that to work, it is messy when you are close to the hardware.
yeah thats true, hardware support now is much better and using openbsd is like goig 10 year back.
I frankly still use linux 100% of the time, I feel powerful, I'm on an open standard compatible with all things basically and doing dev work of any kind is a pleasure (maybe webdev is better on other platforms...).
But there are areas where *bsd do much better.
