GhostBSD

Reader supplied reviews for GhostBSD Average rating 7.5 from 63 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on GhostBSD? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 26.125.0224.10.123.10.122.06.1521.11.2420.11.2819.1018.1211.110.310.14.03.53.12.52.01.51.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 26.1 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-06-01 Country: Poland Votes: 0 I've always wanted to explore the BSD world, but installing FreeBSD was a real challenge. Things changed when I discovered the GhostBSD distribution, and it was the first BSD distribution I managed to install on a laptop with an Intel 8th gen processor and an Intel GPU. Unfortunately, when I tried to install Steam (via Linux), I encountered problems with the 915kms drivers. I read that this was a problem with GhostBSD (26.1) being too new! So I wanted to test GhostBSD on my main computer with an NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super and a 12th gen Intel processor. The latest version of the system immediately teleported me to the terminal, and I couldn't install GhostBSD graphically! And from what I saw, GhostBSD 24.10 came with NVIDIA drivers pre-installed. When I installed it, I had to select the scfb driver and then install the NVIDIA driver. And when I installed it graphically, I had major problems installing the drivers. Unfortunately, the problem was never resolved. Pros: The first BSD system I didn't have to bother with installing (at least on my laptop), a convenient package manager, and a nice graphical environment. Cons: Major driver problems on all my devices. (Since I don't speak English, I used a translator.) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.02 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-06-01 Country: Brazil Votes: 1 After using Linux for more years than I care to remember I’ve gradually been worn out by it all. You can’t seem to go a day without a new distro appears or those you thought you could trust falling over after the latest update. The world doesn’t need more single dev defaulting to SourceForge vanity project distros or immutable systems created in an attempt to overcome the instability of their origins. Instead it needs those that are established to work as advertised which is rarely the case as often highlighted by Dedoimedo in his reviews. On the wave of my disappointment I decided to try BSD. FreeBSD was the obvious ‘gold standard’ choice but after fighting with it for best part of a day I decided to try Ghost instead and what a revelation! Even KDE Plasma 6 installs and runs in fact better than it does on some Linux distros. Sure the software availability is not so great but there are still alternatives such as no ‘Whatsie’ but WhatsApp Web instead. I installed GhostBSD into a really cheap box I bought with an Intel i5 3470, 8GB RAM and Intel HD 2500 graphics. It runs like the wind with the only negative operation compared to Linux being a slower rate of copying large batches of files from an external drive. A few of the KDE widgets are a bit hit or miss such as the system monitor not running on the desktop but perfectly happily so in the panel. I admit to being struck by this now and don’t fee like going back to Linux at all. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-05-27 Country: United States Votes: 1 For years I've wanted to experience the BSD world, and finally the time has arrived. I could never get BSD to work until Ghost 26.1. It's a dream come true. It was an easy, simple install, with a taste of retro. Kinda reminds me of how Linux distros with XFCE used to run and behave 10 years ago, but it feels light and very snappy. I like that. WiFi and audio worked instantly with Ghost. I've had trouble with these in the past. It doesn't overpower my laptop like some of the big bloated Linux distributions. I found almost all of my favorite programs in the Software Station, and though its not as smooth as my favorite Synaptic, it got the job done with no muss and fuss. I can now use BSD as a daily driver. Much thanks to the Ghost team for a job well done! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 63 reader reviews of GhostBSD...