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points by jdiff 12 hours ago | 0 comments
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.