This is day one of seriously testing GhostBSD on its own, no virtualization. Kudos on the development. I've been wanting a stable BSD and I'm a GUI guy happy to learn CLI. I'm switching from Linux.

So far, it's great. I just need to see where I can install a few apps I need.

Complete newbie question: How do I install apps and where to go? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I looked in the forum and I must have missed it.

I've already installed Portsnap and udated. My next steps are installing: kdenlive and OpenShot, OpenMW (fun game), VLC, and whatever good music player with playlist recommended here.

Much appreciated, Cheers

Welcome to GhostBSD!
There is an application called Octopkg. If you open this you can search for packages there.
Alternatively you can install by the command line.
Open a terminal and login as root.
Then for example if you want to install an alternative media player to the one already installed type

pkg install vlc

When prompted type y then hit the enter key and it will be installed
Eric the founder of GhostBSD is working on a new app called software station which will eventually replace Octopkg. If you're adventurous you can clone it from GitHub and try it.

https://github.com/ghostbsd/software-station

Thanks NevilleGoddard! This is really exciting. I'm looking forward to more BSD stability

Just a quick note, Octopkg has been replaced by Software Station in GhostBSD 18.12

No worries Nikaea!
Hope you enjoy GhostBSD.