Is switching to XLibre recommended?

Giskard

Hi! By default, GhostBSD install the Xorg packages, but XLibre is also available after installation.

Is switching from Xorg to XLibre easy? Is it recommended? What can I expect?

nevillehay

I've been using xlibre with no issues whatsoever. It seems to be faster than xorg but I could be wrong. I'm using amdgpu graphics.
The goods news is that with GhostBSD you can create a boot environment before you change so if something goes wrong you can boot into the previous boot environment and you should not have any problems.
I switched to XLibre a long time ago but I think this is how to do it.

Create boot environment

bectl create backup-xorg. (Or any name you want)

pkg delete xorg
pkg install xlibre (I think this is the pkg name)

To make sure of the package name for XLibre, run

pkg search xlibre

After installing XLibre, reboot and you should be good to go

nevillehay

I'm not at my computer now so I can't tell you the xlibre package name

Giskard

I'll give it a try. I have an nvidia gpu, so my setup is maybe a little trickier. I see that ghostbsd doesn't install by default the full xorg metapackage, but maybe the xorg-minimal one.

Thank you!!