Installed GBSD a few days ago. Installation was quite smooth. The only issue I experienced was EXT2 support. I believe it utilizes FUSE which does not properly work on BSD. Thanks,.
Dont use ext2, use ufs or zfs, i personally recommend zfs to avoid data loss, ufs is nice but zfs is better in my opinion, you can use linux to create a zfs pool if you want or ghostbsd itself via terminal..but if you still wants ext2, bsds have some rw support for it, just make sure to use fstab to mount it when your machine boots up, fstab is a good method for this..
Still strong here Robo, but with much improvements now..my ghostbsd now looks exactly like cde, i used xfce to do it...and even created some scripts to automate the creation of wine shortcuts now, wine and proton highly tweaked for gaming, running steam using wine proton on mizuma..runs almost all of my games..but still needs some fixing for one or another specific cases.. It is because of you that im here, and i found my home after distrohopping for so many time..thank you for your content..greetings from Brazil
@@SgtPiper well..a bunch of games, some modern like GTA V and others like Skyrim or fallout for example, you just need some tweaking but a good start is to use wine proton with dxvk.
@@-r-3542 Everyday I get closer to using Unix. That's great to hear I think when I get a new SSD I will dual boot windows and GhostBSD hopefully I can play a few games I like on GhostBSD
When rebooted, CPU (video) registers/interrupts being reset, hence your recording device gets confused and stops recording. May even happen with virtual machines. Somewhat expected behavior.
Hi! I follow you from Italy and I am trying to learn from your content! Thank you! Can you please make a video where you explain how manage the linux compatibility layer? Some programs are not available for FreeBSD at all. Thanks again
@@godnyx117 No, the way it function is a bit different. It loads (almost) everthing onto Ramdrive and functions from there... Boot up may take longer but fast, afterwards.
@@user-mr3mf8lo7y This is caching and FreeBSD does it as well from what I know. And well, the kernel is loaded into memory anyway and if you want to load the whole partition, you need A LOT of memory so, very few people would be able to do it.
I think it's still a 'wannabe' Desktop OS; the main problem is that still - in 2024 - doesn't work out of the box for many (ie doesn't work for none of my hardware - which is not flashy or edge - ; it's just not working straight out of the box; still audio config issues, video drivers etc). And even if it works (ie bootstrap into a desktop environment) there are still issues here and there; on a laptop (but also desktop) for example, still suspend/resume doesn't work (I'm not even mentioning hibernation as it's clear that on FreeBSD it will never work because it's something that the team is not working on, at all), WiFi doesn't work (unless you use super slow external Wifi USB key 2.4 GHz). I use an expensive and magnificent DAS USB Keyboard with multimedia keys; if I touch any of the multimedia keys, the entire OS will freeze and to regain control, the only solution is to power off/on the entire system. An USB keyboard key that freeze the entire OS. In 2024. (This is happening with any version of FreeBSD, 13.1/2, 14.0, GhostBSD etc); not happening with any other OS. Some of the packages seems to be 'stitched' and not in context of the DE. The software center is sad. The look is very tired and old (but this may not be a show stopper for many). Let's not talk about anything that has DRM (ie watching Netflix etc). I would not recommend this to anyone - that isn't a developer - that want to be productive with their computer/laptop (which means, that their only requirement is to work and be productive without messing around with the OS). Sad - because I like FreeBSD - but true. Sorry to sound so negative, I truly don't want to but, I think that if you decide to review an OS, you should be more impartial on the pros and cons especially for the very known issues that lots of users have with this OS: looking at your reviews it seems all roses and flowers but the reality is different, my friend (and trust me, it's so frustrating to see that everything works for you and when I decide to give it a try, it never works for me; that's life wasted that will never come back). Peace.
It's sad that it doesn't work for your hardware but it works for him, hence why his reviews are all roses and flowers. As for wasted life, don't worry. Most hours are "wasted" compared to what we could had done. Just relax and let it flow 😉
@@godnyx117 Meh. A nice 'caveat' at the beginning of the video would be nice. "Warning: it works for me but your experience may be different or disappointing".
I wanted to try it on my Thinkpad W530. It boots up to command line only. Did a bit of resarch online, played with bios settings; no success! 😢 Any hint is appreciated.
Could you make a guide on how to make a freebsd distro more "immutable"? I know its possible, i just don't know how to do it. This would really convince me to install on family and friend machines as a reliable daily driver OS.
I have a working Ghost BSD with Xfce Desktop…can’t tell you what version at moment because I’m not on my computer as I write this…but I have a problem with an issue it tells me that pkg couldn’t be verified…all the probability solutions I found didnt fix it. My Question is: May could an upgrade of my system (if upgrad is possible) solve that issue? Next questions I have: Is there any way to have Flatpack and / or Snap working on BSD? Is it possible to have my IPhone be connected to BSD (on my Linux Systems NeptuneOS (based on Debian) and Kubuntu its possible and working smooth)? Wine is may nice to have but no need for me😊 If my questions will have a way to solve/workng its real big chance to have BSD as my favorite system! Thanks for helping! Sorry if my English isn’t perfect, as German it’s not my native language! 😊
For GhostBSD you could try If you comment(#) the 2 pubkey lines in /etc/pkg/Trail.conf No snap or Flatpack I'm afraid.... there was an attempt a few years back to create something similar with PC_BSD/TrueOS but it didn't go far... You could try your phone with KDEConnect or perhaps using SMB or NFS.... Your English is perfectly good!
@@RoboNuggie Hi thanks for your quick answer. Problem about updating has been solved. I’ve installed the newest BSD Version. What a bummer Flatpack and Snap wouldn’t work on BSD! But anyway it will become one of favourite OS! To connect my IPhone with KDE I didn’t try! I know it’s working on Linux but don’t know why I didn’t try to test it with BSD… Another maybe stupid question…because MacOS is based on BSD is there a way to have Mac Apps running on BSD? I’m a very bloody beginner with BSD 😀 I like to test and experiment with the systems :-) All is better than Windows!!! About my English…thanks 😀 But I need more practice!
Yo i understand passion nerd projects and going against the grain to use them, but forcing such useless operating system on bloody children is just oppression. Child services should take a look at this
is this irony? it doesn’t sound like that though. having linux on my first computer when I was a 10y old child actually did me much more good that if my parents just threw a windows 98 on my desk.
I'm thinking of having Ghost BSD on a partition and batocera on another. I see where you're coming from but the limiting factors for us end users (not programmers/ devs) can be good for productivity. Plus Ghost BSD allows the end user to do more than other obscure operating systems I've heard of lately like Haiku, React OS, Indiana OS and others. Ghost BSD (BSD in general) works better with Linux and Windows apps than other Unix operating systems. Also I switched to Mint Linux over Ghost BSD on an laptop because of a specific feature that's easier to use on mint but I'll admit Ghost BSD was faster on the laptop than Xfce Mint Linux. Also, I forgot to write above but think for a sec about why this is good for kids. Do you really want them to have a computer that has too much stuff on it? Do you really want them to be able to go on any website and download any executable they find? You have to restrict their access a bit...
It is so great to see you all the time back on the air!
Thank you!
My future operating system. I thank Linux Mint for introducing me to the world of alt-tech.
Can't wait to try GhostBSD.
Go for it, its fantastic and you will learn many things..i was using linux, not everything runs but what runs..runs better than on linux..XD
How did that went?
Good luck on your journey. Let us know how it worked for you.
Greetings Lucius...you are about to enter a new world.
Hell yeah, great to see you and the GBSD.
In this very moment i follow your video on Ghost-BSD 24.01.1 upgraded few days ago from previous version.
Inkscape is a wonderful tool. Its stamp function has been a massive plus.
“Jinja2”
boy that sure brings back some memories
Installed GBSD a few days ago. Installation was quite smooth. The only issue I experienced was EXT2 support. I believe it utilizes FUSE which does not properly work on BSD. Thanks,.
Dont use ext2, use ufs or zfs, i personally recommend zfs to avoid data loss, ufs is nice but zfs is better in my opinion, you can use linux to create a zfs pool if you want or ghostbsd itself via terminal..but if you still wants ext2, bsds have some rw support for it, just make sure to use fstab to mount it when your machine boots up, fstab is a good method for this..
EXT2? Isn't that old? What about EXT4 and EXT3? Are these supported on FreeBSD?
Installed this version on a Dell XPS 9320, and everything, except the touch screen, worked out of the box. Even wifi!! I'm happy :)
Glad to hear..... :-)
Great video as always! Thanks for the review.
Thank you Eric for a great OS.....
Great review! Thanks Robonuggie
Thank you Neville!
Sorry to hear you had recording problems during the installation! The rest was great though!
Like me, the equipment is old and knackered :-)
I'm downloading it now to try it out!!
Its so good, using for quite some time now thx to this channel..
Still strong here Robo, but with much improvements now..my ghostbsd now looks exactly like cde, i used xfce to do it...and even created some scripts to automate the creation of wine shortcuts now, wine and proton highly tweaked for gaming, running steam using wine proton on mizuma..runs almost all of my games..but still needs some fixing for one or another specific cases..
It is because of you that im here, and i found my home after distrohopping for so many time..thank you for your content..greetings from Brazil
Thank you for being here......!
Wow how? What kinda games have you managed to play anything Modern and or AAA
@@SgtPiper well..a bunch of games, some modern like GTA V and others like Skyrim or fallout for example, you just need some tweaking but a good start is to use wine proton with dxvk.
@@-r-3542 Everyday I get closer to using Unix. That's great to hear I think when I get a new SSD I will dual boot windows and GhostBSD hopefully I can play a few games I like on GhostBSD
Thanks
I just waited about a week and I was able to update via software update and not via USB .
When rebooted, CPU (video) registers/interrupts being reset, hence your recording device gets confused and stops recording. May even happen with virtual machines. Somewhat expected behavior.
Doesn’t work under Qubes VM. Same problem as Hurd. No absolute pointing device support.
Hi! I follow you from Italy and I am trying to learn from your content! Thank you! Can you please make a video where you explain how manage the linux compatibility layer? Some programs are not available for FreeBSD at all. Thanks again
I'll put it on the ideas list!
@@RoboNuggie thank you 😊
It is surprisingly a bit faster than FreeBSD (desktop).
What? Maybe a placebo? Isn't it just a configured FreeBSD?
@@godnyx117 No, the way it function is a bit different. It loads (almost) everthing onto Ramdrive and functions from there... Boot up may take longer but fast, afterwards.
@@user-mr3mf8lo7y This is caching and FreeBSD does it as well from what I know. And well, the kernel is loaded into memory anyway and if you want to load the whole partition, you need A LOT of memory so, very few people would be able to do it.
I think it's still a 'wannabe' Desktop OS; the main problem is that still - in 2024 - doesn't work out of the box for many (ie doesn't work for none of my hardware - which is not flashy or edge - ; it's just not working straight out of the box; still audio config issues, video drivers etc). And even if it works (ie bootstrap into a desktop environment) there are still issues here and there; on a laptop (but also desktop) for example, still suspend/resume doesn't work (I'm not even mentioning hibernation as it's clear that on FreeBSD it will never work because it's something that the team is not working on, at all), WiFi doesn't work (unless you use super slow external Wifi USB key 2.4 GHz). I use an expensive and magnificent DAS USB Keyboard with multimedia keys; if I touch any of the multimedia keys, the entire OS will freeze and to regain control, the only solution is to power off/on the entire system. An USB keyboard key that freeze the entire OS. In 2024. (This is happening with any version of FreeBSD, 13.1/2, 14.0, GhostBSD etc); not happening with any other OS. Some of the packages seems to be 'stitched' and not in context of the DE. The software center is sad. The look is very tired and old (but this may not be a show stopper for many). Let's not talk about anything that has DRM (ie watching Netflix etc). I would not recommend this to anyone - that isn't a developer - that want to be productive with their computer/laptop (which means, that their only requirement is to work and be productive without messing around with the OS). Sad - because I like FreeBSD - but true. Sorry to sound so negative, I truly don't want to but, I think that if you decide to review an OS, you should be more impartial on the pros and cons especially for the very known issues that lots of users have with this OS: looking at your reviews it seems all roses and flowers but the reality is different, my friend (and trust me, it's so frustrating to see that everything works for you and when I decide to give it a try, it never works for me; that's life wasted that will never come back). Peace.
Everyone is entitled to am opinion :-)
It's sad that it doesn't work for your hardware but it works for him, hence why his reviews are all roses and flowers.
As for wasted life, don't worry. Most hours are "wasted" compared to what we could had done. Just relax and let it flow 😉
@@godnyx117 So what is the point of these video?
@@fdg394 But to show the OS, of course. If it works for your hardware, it does. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
@@godnyx117 Meh. A nice 'caveat' at the beginning of the video would be nice. "Warning: it works for me but your experience may be different or disappointing".
Please show us the different desktop layouts and the dark theme next time. Latest Firefox is 123.
And it’s times new Roman as well
Miss PCBSD with KDE.
I wanted to try it on my Thinkpad W530. It boots up to command line only. Did a bit of resarch online, played with bios settings; no success! 😢
Any hint is appreciated.
This may help...
forums.freebsd.org/threads/startx-wont-start-twm-on-lenovo-thinkpad-w520.89571/
Thanks @@RoboNuggie,
I will give it a try.
Could you make a guide on how to make a freebsd distro more "immutable"?
I know its possible, i just don't know how to do it. This would really convince me to install on family and friend machines as a reliable daily driver OS.
That's an interesting idea - I'll put it in the ideas list!
@@RoboNuggie also installing the modern limine bootloader might be an idea
I have a working Ghost BSD with Xfce Desktop…can’t tell you what version at moment because I’m not on my computer as I write this…but I have a problem with an issue it tells me that pkg couldn’t be verified…all the probability solutions I found didnt fix it.
My Question is: May could an upgrade of my system (if upgrad is possible) solve that issue?
Next questions I have:
Is there any way to have Flatpack and / or Snap working on BSD?
Is it possible to have my IPhone be connected to BSD (on my Linux Systems NeptuneOS (based on Debian) and Kubuntu its possible and working smooth)?
Wine is may nice to have but no need for me😊
If my questions will have a way to solve/workng its real big chance to have BSD as my favorite system!
Thanks for helping!
Sorry if my English isn’t perfect, as German it’s not my native language! 😊
For GhostBSD you could try If you comment(#) the 2 pubkey lines in /etc/pkg/Trail.conf
No snap or Flatpack I'm afraid.... there was an attempt a few years back to create something similar with PC_BSD/TrueOS but it didn't go far...
You could try your phone with KDEConnect or perhaps using SMB or NFS....
Your English is perfectly good!
@@RoboNuggie Hi thanks for your quick answer.
Problem about updating has been solved.
I’ve installed the newest BSD Version.
What a bummer Flatpack and Snap wouldn’t work on BSD!
But anyway it will become one of favourite OS!
To connect my IPhone with KDE I didn’t try! I know it’s working on Linux but don’t know why I didn’t try to test it with BSD…
Another maybe stupid question…because MacOS is based on BSD is there a way to have Mac Apps running on BSD?
I’m a very bloody beginner with BSD 😀
I like to test and experiment with the systems :-)
All is better than Windows!!!
About my English…thanks 😀 But I need more practice!
🙋
Is it any better at gaming than nomad bsd?
Depends on what you want to play.... you can run steam....
wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/How_To#Installing_and_Setting_up_Linux_Steam_on_GhostBSD
I would just use an emulator and I emulate on Android everyday.
i loved to try ghostbsd in 2031
Too bad no ghostbsd with kde or gnome . Gnome 2 (mate just a fork ) is outdated it’s like back to the future scenario
still has shit support for intel arc video cards
Yep, that's down to it's FreeBSD base.
Yo i understand passion nerd projects and going against the grain to use them, but forcing such useless operating system on bloody children is just oppression. Child services should take a look at this
is this irony? it doesn’t sound like that though. having linux on my first computer when I was a 10y old child actually did me much more good that if my parents just threw a windows 98 on my desk.
Useless?
Ask Netflix and Sony why they use BSD.
I'm thinking of having Ghost BSD on a partition and batocera on another. I see where you're coming from but the limiting factors for us end users (not programmers/ devs) can be good for productivity. Plus Ghost BSD allows the end user to do more than other obscure operating systems I've heard of lately like Haiku, React OS, Indiana OS and others. Ghost BSD (BSD in general) works better with Linux and Windows apps than other Unix operating systems. Also I switched to Mint Linux over Ghost BSD on an laptop because of a specific feature that's easier to use on mint but I'll admit Ghost BSD was faster on the laptop than Xfce Mint Linux.
Also, I forgot to write above but think for a sec about why this is good for kids. Do you really want them to have a computer that has too much stuff on it? Do you really want them to be able to go on any website and download any executable they find? You have to restrict their access a bit...