>So to fill in what comes after the ellipses for the typical respondent of news of a laptop running OpenBSD: "Really? But... wouldn't that require special trips to the internet to copy/paste configuration settings that still only partially solve the problem of a laptop running an OS that wasn't designed to run on a laptop?" And the answer seems to be: yes

These problems seem related to the choice of WindowMaker, not OpenBSD. Choosing a different window manager or desktop environment won't have the same issues.

And ACPI events vary wildly, unless the two people are using the exact same model I wouldn't be surprised if their suspend/resume success is different.