GhostBSD

Reader supplied reviews for GhostBSD Average rating 7.3 from 45 review(s) Please selecting 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: -- 24.10.123.10.122.06.1521.11.2420.11.2819.1018.1211.110.310.14.03.53.12.52.01.51.0 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: 24.10.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-12-11 Votes: 0 I am a non-expert user with user-level experience in DOS, Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro, always on the hunt for a user-friendly, secure, stable operating system with access to a wide variety of apps for daily use. In my particular case, I decided to install GhostBSD in a virtual machine on my Ubuntu laptop. I had absolutely no issues with the installation. To a Linux user, the entire system, including desktop environment (I run MATE) seem familiar, and it has been easy to learn the unique features. I am exploring this setup for two reasons: (1) with the increasing incidence of malware attacks on Linux users, I want access to a less-obvious target having strong security features, and (2) I want to try to take advantage of some of the apparent firewall advantage of separating sensitive activity and data using a virtual machine. I took a close look at Qubes, to the extent of installing it for a test drive on an external USB drive, and found that, while it could serve my purposes, it is much more technical than I am comfortable with, is designed for a variety of dimensions (i.e. cubes and OS's) beyond my needs, and appears to be very finicky and demanding of deeper technical knowledge than I presently have. While Qubes is still on my list to consider for the future, as it becomes more widespread and stable and/or I get more proficient, I can slip right into the driver's seat with GhostBSD and achieve everything I presently want to do. I find the FreeBSD handbook exceptionally useful, but the GhostBSD wiki is very hard for me to use and often hands off to the forums. Forums are great for unusual or technical issues, or for sharing user experience, but they are not friendly as a handbook-type resource. Similarly, I can find no non-official resource such as a "GhostBSD for Dummies. Something of the sort is needed. However, so far, I have needed it seldom enough that I only find that shortcoming an annoyance rather than a barrier, and it is strongly overcome by the attractiveness of the OS itself to me. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.10.1 Rating: 4 Date: 2024-12-07 Votes: 0 C'mon Ghost! after all these years, the same problems remain. I downloaded the XFCE edition. It's a good looking, good running distro when it's plugged into the ethernet, but my Dell Latitude laptop still can't get a wifi signal. How long is that going to continue? Then the deal breaker. No audio icon! I couldn't find one anywhere. Even after downloading and installing PulseAudio. I could hear sound, I can raise and lower the volume, but nothing else. I can't record, or edit. This is fatal for a podcaster like myself. There are no sound controls anywhere within the distro itself. I have never encountered anything like this. I really want Ghost to work well, but I can't wait forever. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.10.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-21 Votes: 11 There are big advantages of using GhostBSD over Linux. It's native zfs support makes it an outstandingly reliable workstation. For any user, who is interested in reliability of zfs mirrored data this OS is choice #1. Any PC in such a role as a workstation or even homeserver does NOT need Wi-Fi driver support at first place. When security plays a role, a smaller software repo with well maintained apps is also not harmful at all. The updater itself could be a bit more transparent during its activities: it only displays 1 line per downloaded software package. A human wants instead see a full display with as many downloaded packages, as possible at the very same time. Including the possibility to manually save this log in a reserved location on disk. On the documentation side, GhostBSD seems to have not yet found a stable workflow, where to put the latest information about fixing minor issues. These hints are spread over several locations - each having its specific (dis-)advantage(s). Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 45 reader reviews of GhostBSD...