Well, what can I say! Less than 5 minutes to install. Minor issue - chose my language and locale at point of install and keyboard layout (en-GB). After install got notification of upgrade - did it - took about 20 minutes. After reboot, Software Station became inaccessible with 'wrong password' - what had happened is that somehow it had reverted to en-US, hence Software Station issue - added keyboard layout/locale and removed en-US one. What is baffling is that my login password had no issues, only in the desktop. I am glad no longer have any systemd present with this OS, but disappointed that Pulse Audio is still hanging around when I prefer ALSA. I can't stand Poettinger ### on my system! Can't believe how quick it was to install. Very polished. Well done GhostBSD Team. I have in the past played with PC-BSD 8.0 (now dead project) and MidnightBSD - when trying 2.1 I could not login - saying wrong password which makes me wonder if this is a BSD-Locale issue? Just also tried MidnightBSD 3.0 and could not get desktop/DE working at all. Also taken a look at Venom Linux which uses a kind of BSD methodology. Was able to install DE's but could not get a 'binding' for Desktop to run. Also tried FreeBSD but got nowhere fast. This has to be the easiest BSD OS ever! Congratulations to all the Devs who made this a polished distribution.
Why am I considering moving away from GNU/Linux to BSD? A recent discovery that my current OS (Devuan 3.1.1) has 'elongid' present, which is a hangover from systemd which I discovered after stumbling on this webpage:
https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2023/03/02/363/
