points by gattilorenz 19 hours ago | 0 comments
Woah. Still on Sequoia with no intention to upgrade, but maybe the next laptop runs Linux.
[–] rustyhancock 17 hours ago
It might depend on your needs and priorities, GhostBSD is a great option for people who like something more like Mac.
It's just a tuned FreeBSD distro using Mate.
[–] jdiff 12 hours ago
What similarities do you find between macOS and GhostBSD? The Mate desktop by itself isn't super mac-like.
I also see it defaults to the growing pile of bugs known as XLibre.
[–] rustyhancock 11 hours ago
The similarity is predominantly between the userland. (The Freebsd kernel and XNU is mostly historical as far as I know)
A typical Linux user will be used to GNU conventions and probably have a lot of annoyances.
GhostBSD is simply a beginner friendly distro of FreeBSD.
In one line both MacOS users and BSD broadly will squirm at the likes of things like `ls src/ -la`
But honestly, I was interdicting in the idea that Linux is the only alternative really.
[–] veonik 19 hours ago