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My experience is that you're not going to get as cohesive a desktop computing experience in any BSD as you do in macOS. However, if you're annoyed with all the
by morganvachon 10y ago
My experience is that you're not going to get as cohesive a desktop computing experience in any BSD as you do in macOS. However, if you're annoyed with all the little gotchas of the Mac environment but you want to stay on BSD, TrueOS is a great place to start.
Going further down the rabbit hole, if you are willing to forego an easy OOTB experience and want to really get your hands dirty, give OpenBSD a go. I've found its installation process to be the fastest and easiest of any BSD, and it gives you a bare bones foundation to build into whatever you want. For desktop use it does require some tweaking, but it's minor stuff and you end up with a rock-solid OS that gets out of your way and lets you get on with your work.
Some of my go-to resources for setting up a proper OpenBSD desktop:
https://sivers.org/openbsd https://sivers.org/openbsd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13223351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13223351 (ymmv, I use Xfce instead of Lumina)
https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/openbsd-as-a-linux-desktop-replacement/ https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/openbsd-as-a-linu...