Other options to play with a preconfigured desktop are GhostBSD, which has Gnome, NomadBSD which is meant to be run from a USB stick I think, and hellosystem which does a Mac like desktop. I've not used desktop installer--I prefer dwm and openbox, and just do something like
Code:
pkg install -y xorg-server liberation-fonts-ttf rxvt-unicode openbox xinit xauth xf86-input-libinput
. I also have to install a video driver, depending upon the machine (workstations usually have Nvidia, laptops intel or amdgpu, and both intel and amd often require the drm-kmod package too.)
That gives me enough to boot into text mode make a simple $HOME/.xinitrc that reads
exec openbox-session boot into X and have a urxvt terminal. Note that many of these packages pull in other packages, for instance xorg-server will pull in some fonts, but I happen to like liberation fonts.
If you are coming from Linux, this is how some types of Linux work too, for example, Arch and Void.
Other versions of Linux, such as Mint, for example, install a fully configured desktop. Using Ubuntu or Fedora, you can a do a minimal install and add X stuff afterwards.
So much of this depends upon what you want. The cliche, but a cliche because it's true, is what did you expect, how did this turn out differently than you expect, and what you can do to fix it. So it looks as if you expected it to have graphics in place after installation. The answer is no, it doesn't do that. There's been several suggestions, including mine, of how you can fix it. So I would say the next question is, Do you know which desktop you want to use?
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