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Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:54:30 -0800

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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr

GhostBSD So Far

#BSD #FreeBSD #GhostBSD #Linux #ethics #desktopOS

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Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:19:23 -0800

billy_wildd@diaspora.ragesoss.com

Screen shots?

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:42:54 -0800

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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr

I haven't done many screenshots other than the desktop one in my blog. But there are lots of them online I bet. Mine is xfce, but I have a top panel for the taskbar, notifications, menu and whatnot. For an application launcher I decided to play around with Cairo-dock just because it looked so pretty in videos and such. It is gorgeous and animated, and I'm not so obsessed with everything being as "lightweight" as possible as I used to be.

Not that Cairo-dock is heavy at all! But compositing adds a little "weight" I'm certain. But it sure is fun and cool looking! I dunno why, but I never could get Cairo-dock in PCLinuxOS when I was using it (because it's systemd-free and elogind-free - even the new "Debian Edition" has elogind now, so it ain't truly "systemd-free").

Perhaps I'll grab a few snapshots and post them to my blog later.

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:08:32 -0800

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robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr

Little "nickel-and-dime" issues have given me pause about making GhostBSD my daily driver, but 3 out of 4 of them were resolved after a bit of searching and applying things. I even ungoogled-chromium to accept uBlock-Origin with one complicated workaround. I would have been better off to just install Brave using a linux-compatibility layer from the BSD repo. Probably still will do that, since YouTube has decided to block ungoogled-chromium.

Cairo-dock locked up and froze everything up once and once was enough. Replaced with Plank just because I wanted a dock rather than just another Xfce panel for nothing but launchers. Just enough eye candy to make a difference I like.

Settings don't stick after a reboot, though, and I have to use Pulseaudio mixer to restore my USB headset to usefulness every time I log out and back in. There must be some way to make my settings "stick" between sessions!

Other than those little minor annoyances, I think this could become my daily driver. It would ease my concerns about:

The literal takeover of Linux by IBM, Microshit, and Google, plus
the whole stupid #systemd cancer that effects even most distros that claim to be "systemd-free."

GhostBSD lacks some of the wicked-cool GUI stuff that spoiled me in Linux distros, like "minstick" and Systemback (later "Timeshift"), but those tasks are actually easily handled from the command line. There's even some GUI stuff for keeping bootable snapshots of the existingOS (with /home, /etc, and other stuff backed up separately). This is an almost-ready-for-prime-time OS for BSD beginners with a little bit of Linux experience.