Not to contradict Michael, but I had a not so nice experience when trying to install from the latest image of GhostBSD on a laptop. Apparently, they forgot to include the right file the touchpad to work with xorg and that made the adventure of installing from the graphical live desktop they provide somehow 'challenging'. Maybe the path for GhostBSD s to get the previous version, install that and then follow their instructions for an upgrade (didn't try that and went in waiting mode for an update/patch). On VMs, I've had a very nice and smooth experience with FreeBSD starting at 13.4. Re what desktop, I'd vote for KDE. I use it because I'm able to preview my K70's raw images without extra stuff installed. Wayland is still not easy to install and get running, but Xorg is. I'd be interested in seeing how good it performs on FreeBSD. My experience on Linux (Fedora 41) on a Dell tablet with keyboard is acceptable when I'm on the road. But again that's Linux and I'm really interested in seeing what FreeBSD would do with an equivalent setup on that box or a (very) old MacBook Air I have lying around here.
/Pedro A. On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 20:58, Michael Schuster <michaelspriv...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could try GhostBSD. > > Michael > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 20:07 Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan < > mbzade...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> I use FreeBSD to teach university courses and encourage students to use >> FreeBSD. >> Almost all of my students want to have the FreeBSD operating system on >> their laptops, either virtual or real, to start with, and I encounter the >> problem of installing a desktop environment on all laptops every day, and >> unfortunately, students still cannot install a simple environment like xfce >> or mate on their laptops despite spending a lot of time. >> >> Now I had a suggestion: >> >> Is it possible to provide a FreeBSD image with the X environment as the >> default, along with various ISO or IMG files or even VMs? So that students >> can automatically boot with the X environment by installing it? >> >> Otherwise, is it possible to include a script in the operating system so >> that users can automatically install a simple environment like XFCE by >> running that script? >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> *~ Mohamad, * >> *M.Sc. Cryptography* >> >> -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Sagen's Paradeiser, write BE! Year 1 of the New Koprocracy