Built a New BSD PC and Install was Easy even with the desktop.
reddit / BSD

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NoDimensionMind · 2022-03-08 21:47

Hello;

I built a BSD pc out of spare parts I had:

2950 Threadripper

32 gigs of ram

2 M2 and 3 SSD 1Terbyte drives

Asrock X399 Taichi board

BSD found the networking and wireless and got the wireless up and
running during install.

After the base system was installed all I had to do was run desktop-
installer and all is well.

BSD sure has come a long way for the original UNIX systems out there.
Keep up the good work.

BSD is awesome.

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reddit_original · 2022-03-08 22:45

Uh. Which bsd?

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jggimi · 2022-03-08 23:15

Many people conflate "FreeBSD" into "BSD".  Including many FreeBSD
users.

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nawcom · 2022-03-09 04:45

BSD was last released in 1995, [v4.4 Lite
R2](https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2). Trust me you'd hate it
because it wouldn't run on your hardware at all.

Now FreeBSD 13 is pretty nice

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IanArcad · 2022-03-09 07:14

FreeBSD is a great server OS but installing a GUI is tricky for a
first timer.  GhostBSD (basically FreeBSD with pre-installed packages)
OTOH it is really simple and what I would recommend for most people
for a desktop.

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NoDimensionMind · 2022-03-09 13:34

FreeBSD sorry I should have said that.

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thedaemon · 2022-04-26 22:16

I support and use GhostBSD, but there are scripts that setup desktop
as well. https://github.com/broozar/installDesktopFreeBSD/ here is one
desktop script. there is another in ports.