Post B0Q0vmREGqiPZTH0WO by passthejoe@ruby.social
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 (DIR) Post #B0Q0vjsllzxje18SX2 by passthejoe@ruby.social
       2025-11-19T22:05:55Z
       
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       My time with GhostBSD was short. LibreOffice installed, but it crashed every time I tried to open an encrypted ODT document.I even wrote scripts to set backlight levels. I remember using Gammy in FreeBSD to control brightness, but that package isn't available in the stock GhostBSD. Not sure why. I didn't take the time to look into it.Enabling the touchpad and then typing was a total shitshow, even with "turn off touchpad while typing" in Xfce. I think that config wasn't working.#GhostBSD
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Q0vlIgV8Ho2gGfZ2 by passthejoe@ruby.social
       2025-11-19T22:12:23Z
       
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       The software and update GUIs worked well. They were slow, but they worked. I liked having a GUI setup for networking. If there was a way to add that to #OpenBSD, I'd do it.At one point I closed the lid. I don't know if I had it set up to suspend, but when I opened it a couple hours later, everything was there, but the keyboard and mouse wouldn't work.Overall it was a nice Xfce desktop, and everything was appropriately snappy. I liked the fish shell. I'd use that again.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Q0vmREGqiPZTH0WO by passthejoe@ruby.social
       2025-11-19T22:17:33Z
       
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       Things I liked included how complete the Geany text editor was OOTB. I installed some kind of mega-package, and all the themes were already there. I think that's due to the FreeBSD packager. GhostBSD's live environment is very helpful -- you can tell a lot about what's working and not before you install.I tried the official MATE version as a live image but didn't install that one. Maybe things like suspend/resume work better in that GUI.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Q0vsylx36zrF0sdc by passthejoe@ruby.social
       2025-11-19T22:20:50Z
       
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       Firefox is in the GhostBSD base, and it ran well. Video and audio was excellent. I didn't take the time to install Chromium, but I probably should have. I might try it in the live image to see what it's like (if I am able to install that way).I'm looking forward to the KDE Plasma install in the upcoming FreeBSD release. That will be worth trying out.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Q0vzUtiWNG4c5cXo by passthejoe@ruby.social
       2025-11-19T23:24:43Z
       
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       I replaced GhostBSD with #OpenBSD, which I was running a few days ago, except this time I went for Xfce immediately. I also opted for encryption this time.The install was quick as always, and Xfce is as smooth as I remember it. I had a dark theme in minutes.I immediately installed LibreOffice, grabbed my encrypted ODT document and tried to open it.It worked. No crashing.All my files are a quick sftp away on my LAN file server, so I'll have everything back very soon.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Q3fwLfxKtlXLoXZY by jae@darkdork.dev
       2025-11-19T23:56:41.479002Z
       
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       @passthejoe the live environment part of ghostbsd is really nice.  and if you're "sneaky" about it you can always take the drive to a computer shop and test out newer hardware.  or so i heard :-)  👋from a fellow bsd/ruby enthusiast!