Re: Nearly perfect for me, but..
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:48 am
Hi amtrakuk,
we're having a little "chicken and egg" problem here: FreeBSD is an excellent server operating system! When it comes to the desktop, it's admittedly lacking behind quite a bit. We're trying to improve things in this regard. There's TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) which aims at providing a modern but clean and simple desktop to people who like the Qt framework. And we at GhostBSD are into creating an elegant and comfortable desktop for those who prefer the GTK+ experience.
We have a great and healthy user community, however development is mostly done by a single (!) person. The project is making progress but it's pretty obvious that manpower is the problem why it's not possible to move forward more quickly. If GhostBSD had more working features - like bluetooth support - probably more people would join in. However we do require more developers to implement things like bluetooth in the first place... That's the problem.
For now our user base is probably limited to people who either have no very high demands when it comes to more special things or who are already convinced that they want a BSD-driven desktop and are willing to sacrifice some functionality (or explore how to work around it). If you have special needs that are hard requirements... well, that makes it complicated right now, I'm afraid.
What you could try is explore if passing through bluetooth to a VM is possible with a hypervisor like e.g. Virtualbox. That would be a bit inconvenient, yes, but could actually do what you need. I don't have any bluetooth devices myself and I'm not using Skype, so I cannot really help you with these problems.
we're having a little "chicken and egg" problem here: FreeBSD is an excellent server operating system! When it comes to the desktop, it's admittedly lacking behind quite a bit. We're trying to improve things in this regard. There's TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) which aims at providing a modern but clean and simple desktop to people who like the Qt framework. And we at GhostBSD are into creating an elegant and comfortable desktop for those who prefer the GTK+ experience.
We have a great and healthy user community, however development is mostly done by a single (!) person. The project is making progress but it's pretty obvious that manpower is the problem why it's not possible to move forward more quickly. If GhostBSD had more working features - like bluetooth support - probably more people would join in. However we do require more developers to implement things like bluetooth in the first place... That's the problem.
For now our user base is probably limited to people who either have no very high demands when it comes to more special things or who are already convinced that they want a BSD-driven desktop and are willing to sacrifice some functionality (or explore how to work around it). If you have special needs that are hard requirements... well, that makes it complicated right now, I'm afraid.
What you could try is explore if passing through bluetooth to a VM is possible with a hypervisor like e.g. Virtualbox. That would be a bit inconvenient, yes, but could actually do what you need. I don't have any bluetooth devices myself and I'm not using Skype, so I cannot really help you with these problems.