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  • Faraiwefaraiwe@mstdn.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 1:03 PM

    In light of the current shitheelery going on at Linux HQ, and general techbro shitheadery on FOSS....

    Consider brushing up, or looking into xBSD as a daily driver, privacy preserving OS. Grab that old computer and slap some BSD on it.

    I would recommend #GhostBSD, because a #FreeBSD with a GUI already loaded. Seems to be the single big bump on road for newbies at BSD.

    Doesn't hurt and, if Linux goes the way of post-jobs apple software... well, there. Just sayin'.

    #FOSS #Linux #BSD

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  • Faraiwefaraiwe@mstdn.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 1:11 PM

    Disclaimer, I am NOT with Ghost BSD, as dev or even with the community.

    I just referred to it, because FreeBSD is perhaps my fave not-lethal-when-you-fuck-up BSD, and Ghost is not only based off of it, but it does give you a point-n-click thing off the bat.

    As I have seen newbies get interested AND become hopelessly disenchanted by the end-user not-very-friendiness of standard BSDs, the whole GUI thing seems to be the big pitfall.

    So, all caveats, blahblah.

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  • Rasterraster@retro-gaiden.com
    Oct 20, 2026, 2:26 PM

    @faraiwe not much to fail for BSDs thought, at the end.
    They never got the popular support that brought the desktop distributions for Linux like Mint and such.

    Perhaps with Linux that is picking more and more fleas in these times, we could see something better desktop-oriented for bsd too.

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  • RichRARobiRichRARobi@mastodon.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 1:15 PM

    @faraiwe
    After trying NetBSD last week and failing miserably at the installation hurdle, I tried GhostBSD yesterday. Installation is a lot easier than other BSD.

    GhostBSD runs well on a core I3 , and if I hadn't previously been using LMDE Mint I would have stayed with it. However, Bluetooth is a big no-way, so had to use a deskhog of a keyboard. That and a few other little things like app installation woes, sent me scuttling back to Mint LMDE.

    Maybe when I am younger, I will ...

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  • Faraiwefaraiwe@mstdn.social
    Oct 20, 2026, 1:44 PM

    @RichRARobi nice.

    I am on Mint, myself, as daily. However, i do exactly zero things bluetooth. It's garbage connection, always, and it's shit sound, because single channel MCAP-ed.

    Wired is bestest, always, zero exceptions.

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  • Rasterraster@retro-gaiden.com
    Oct 20, 2026, 2:23 PM

    @RichRARobi @faraiwe NetBSD seems really a lot picky about the installation support. I tried to install myself on a partition on my main pc, but everytime the installation program broken for a corrupted image. However the downloaded one is correct.
    Seems the cause I used cheap USB stick, but no other OS gives me problems with their installation images on the same keys.

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  • Rasterraster@retro-gaiden.com
    Oct 20, 2026, 2:28 PM

    @faraiwe @RichRARobi Seems also that FreeBSD has a better linux compatibility layer. It is good that I make run Linux port games on it, and run pretty well. :P

    NetBSD has one, but I didn't tested yet the performance and issues.

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