I'm moving to BSD in mid February. I want something that doesn't break in the worst moments because my time is severely limited. Actually not really suitable for such change, but I don't want to wait longer.
Up to now I looked deeply into PC-BSD because this looked like the closest thing for me. I was not perfectly happy with it because I don't think that I like how ports and packages are second class citizens in it, PBIs just don't cut it, there are too few of them and I actually see them as less elegant than ports. But I scratched off going with FreeBSD because I'd have to spend more time than I have to have it running reasonably well. Also, on several occasions I had an impression that it's fine as long as you don't modify it too much with 'too much' being far too close for my liking.
Recently 2 things changed.
Ghost BSD has an LXDE version.
I learned that PC-BSD enables bsdstats by default which I find to be a sign of outrageous disregard of user privacy. And I value my privacy.
But I have doubts. I haven't seen any review of the latest version yet, but all the other ones seemed to describe Ghost BSD as immature in various ways. I see that very few people use it; it's forum is practically empty, here it's seldom mentioned.
I'd like to hear your thoughts...is Ghost BSD ready for the prime time?
Up to now I looked deeply into PC-BSD because this looked like the closest thing for me. I was not perfectly happy with it because I don't think that I like how ports and packages are second class citizens in it, PBIs just don't cut it, there are too few of them and I actually see them as less elegant than ports. But I scratched off going with FreeBSD because I'd have to spend more time than I have to have it running reasonably well. Also, on several occasions I had an impression that it's fine as long as you don't modify it too much with 'too much' being far too close for my liking.
Recently 2 things changed.
Ghost BSD has an LXDE version.
I learned that PC-BSD enables bsdstats by default which I find to be a sign of outrageous disregard of user privacy. And I value my privacy.
But I have doubts. I haven't seen any review of the latest version yet, but all the other ones seemed to describe Ghost BSD as immature in various ways. I see that very few people use it; it's forum is practically empty, here it's seldom mentioned.
I'd like to hear your thoughts...is Ghost BSD ready for the prime time?