Better Every Time
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:09 pm
I've only been trying GhostBSD for six months or so on this HP Envy with intel and nVidia cpu/graphics.
My first try would not install; so I kept trying different disc and file type choices to no avail. I waited out updates and downloaded one from a link provided by the dev in a thread I started here; that one installed but had issues unfixable that I could not live with. That was this past October.
Now I've got the *28 version installed just a few days ago and I can see that the dev is constantly working on GhostBSD because it installed readily on the same machine that it used to fail on. Also there are improvements all around; in the menus, in configuration tweaks, etc.
Ongoing issues are (for me) not a big deal, although it will be nice to see them resolved as time goes by: media keys (top row) and brightness adjustment do not work (but the f5 key, which is just a switch for the keyboard back light on my laptop, does work. )No way to tweak the Mate menu other than the thin choices offered by right-clicking and moving or deleting choices around; I'm used to being able to change it altogether as to top level such as the spelling of "favourites," etc. Can't find a way to do that or change the icon and/or menu title (dconf editor offers that only for the full bar menu with "places,etc" on it but I use the smaller Mate menu).
Other little things here and there are off a bit, but this GhostBSD is proof that it is being improved as the weeks go by. I am very happy to see that. Watching FreeBSD's improvements is good, too, knowing that much of those tweaks land on Ghost as well.
Thank you very much for helping me get away from systemd and migrate over to BSD!
- Huck
My first try would not install; so I kept trying different disc and file type choices to no avail. I waited out updates and downloaded one from a link provided by the dev in a thread I started here; that one installed but had issues unfixable that I could not live with. That was this past October.
Now I've got the *28 version installed just a few days ago and I can see that the dev is constantly working on GhostBSD because it installed readily on the same machine that it used to fail on. Also there are improvements all around; in the menus, in configuration tweaks, etc.
Ongoing issues are (for me) not a big deal, although it will be nice to see them resolved as time goes by: media keys (top row) and brightness adjustment do not work (but the f5 key, which is just a switch for the keyboard back light on my laptop, does work. )No way to tweak the Mate menu other than the thin choices offered by right-clicking and moving or deleting choices around; I'm used to being able to change it altogether as to top level such as the spelling of "favourites," etc. Can't find a way to do that or change the icon and/or menu title (dconf editor offers that only for the full bar menu with "places,etc" on it but I use the smaller Mate menu).
Other little things here and there are off a bit, but this GhostBSD is proof that it is being improved as the weeks go by. I am very happy to see that. Watching FreeBSD's improvements is good, too, knowing that much of those tweaks land on Ghost as well.
Thank you very much for helping me get away from systemd and migrate over to BSD!
- Huck