GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening
GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening
Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce
I've never used any BSDs directly, only in the shape of opnSense, but as a fan of Gentoo, which uses portage, that, in turnm is heavily inspired by the ports system, I should probably give one of them a go at some point.
My biggest deterrent so far has been lower performance compared to linux. I objectively understand it's imperceptible in every day use, but something at the back of my head has been holding me back.
OOB, FreeBSD will always be slower. You need to compile a custom kernel using only the hardware on your system. After that, it exceeds Linux perf.
Is that still true comparing to a custom kernel for linux?
If not better, equal. But without doing this, the BSD kernel is bloated.
To be fair I have not even been aware of GhostBSD's existence.
I had good experiences with modern BSDs. They even have modern hardware detection (eg Nomad BSD) and maybe this one is decent too.
I’m familiar with Linux and GNU Bash so I’m reluctant to learn something new. But a part of me wishes I discovered BSD before Linux.