I don't keep any Tricks, or Tips, secret from people. I've been trying to help people new to FreeeBSD learn how to build a FreeBSD desktop from scratch to use it as a desktop OS since 2016.
I just recently put my site
Building A FreeBSD Desktop From Scratch back up after being offline for over a year in a whole different graphic design, new original content with more on the way and FreeBSD wallpapers I made.
I have a Beginners Tutorial updated 5-3-21 with a target audience of a Windows user who has never used the commandline that walks them step-by-step through installation of the FreeBSD Base System, compiling 3rd party programs from ports, to landing on a fully functional Fluxbox desktop with instructions and examples of required editing of System and Security files before surfing the web. It has the
pf ruleset I use on my laptops along with a newly added modified ruleset for people who use CUPS
I have another tutorial on How To Spoof Your Ethernet MAC Address Using FreeBSD and how to reassign your original MAC without shutting the interface down that I added with the site upgrade.
A lesson coming in using ports that quiets the quandary of a question quizical questioners quite often ask "Why use ports in a Beginners Tutorial???" A demo version of what the site would look like in valid handwritten XHTML 1.0 Frameset and CSS to horrorify the smartPhone users. It's currently all handwritten valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Level 3 CSS with no scripting or ads.
The Beginners Tutorial was posted here in the forums in 2017 and is currently ranked #1 on a Google search for FreeBSD Desktop Tutorial. Before I took the site down I had 3 or the top 5 results including
an article in where freebsdnews.com picked it up in the forums and featured a screenshot
ILUXA took of his box.
It was
featured once before when posted on a now defunct Board where I used my bots name Siseneg to post that was picked up by the English and Arabic Facebook pages of bsdmag.org.