# Patrick Marchand runs BSD I was introduced to programming later than most. It was only during my second semester at university, where I studied economics, that I started modifying one of my favourite video games, _Crusader Kings 2_. From there I was introduced to git and from git to the wider open source programming world. I had so much fun that I abandoned economics and went back to Cegep to study _Informatique de Gestion_. While I probably should of stayed in university and tried to get into computer science, my program did feature a Windows system administration class that drove me towards installing Ubuntu on my computer when I got home. I used various Linux distros, but always felt there was something missing. It was far from stable and I didn't like where the ecosystem was going. It seemed it would get harder and harder to understand my systems as things went on. So I tried [FreeBSD] on a desktop and was pleasantly surprised, but still a little underwhelmed. I then tried [OpenBSD] on a server and fell in love, it was easy to use, easy to understand and seemed to be rock solid. Though I couldn't plunge into BSD just yet, because of my Optimus® enabled laptop. Flash forward a year and a half later, I was still happy with my server and unhappy with my laptop. So I bought a ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and set it up with [OpenBSD] 6.1. And after reading through Michael W. Lucas [Absolute OpenBSD], I swiched to [-current], which has proven to still be more stable than Linux. I'm now the happy owner of an OpenBSD VM, an OpenBSD laptop, an old Arch Linux laptop and a [DragonFly BSD] desktop, so I can play with _hammer2_. You can find me on [my blog](https://www.patrick.marchand.ski) or on [Mastodon](https://bsd.network/@mathuin). _[14 Aug 2018](/raw/people/mathuin.md)_ [OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/ [-current]: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors [FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/ [DragonFly BSD]: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/ [Absolute OpenBSD]: https://nostarch.com/obenbsd2e