Lectures for beginners

Kelly_Chui

Kelly_Chui

First of all, I apologize to my English. Grammar or expression may be weird because English is not my first language.
I'm a beginner who only tried installing BSD and just read the forum rules.

Recently, I was interested in operating systems other than Windows or macOS, so I came across freeBSD while looking for it. However, after installing freeBSD, it was a challenge from installing and applying DE, and I was able to get a lot of information through Google search and YouTube, but I failed as it is now.

So, I felt that it was inefficient to copy the command lines obtained from the Internet without knowing the meaning. However, I recently learned that there are free Linux system lectures provided by the my country. I know BSD is not Linux but for a complete beginner like me, can these lectures help me use freeBSD?

I think it will help me understand my situation, so to tell you some information about myself, I'm a junior iOS Developer who just graduated from college(major is electronic engineering) and my main language is C++, Swift. The purpose of using freeBSD is simple interest, but I want to experience more diverse computer systems outside of macOS or Windows.

Thank you for reading my post.
 
Kelly_Chui said:
I was able to get a lot of information through Google search and YouTube, but I failed as it is now.
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Don't google search, read the handbook: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

The handbook is constantly updated and should contain all the necessary information. A google search is likely to give you a lot of old (and probably deprecated) answers.
 
Kelly_Chui said:
I recently learned that there are free Linux system lectures provided by the my country. I know BSD is not Linux but for a complete beginner like me, can these lectures help me use freeBSD?
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In addition to the advise of SirDice, if the lectures are about user related software as window managers, desktop environments, e-mail readers and so on they can help. But Linux is just the kernel and the distributions as Debian and so on make a bundle out of that. If the lectures are about the kernel or are distribution specific they are not useful, it can even be the opposite.

Two strong points of FreeBSD are the excellent documentation but also this forum. In my opinion it is much easier and more fruitful to start with FreeBSD than starting with any Linux distribution.
 
Kelly_Chui said:
However, I recently learned that there are free Linux system lectures provided by the my country. I know BSD is not Linux but for a complete beginner like me, can these lectures help me use freeBSD?
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About 70% or 80% of what you learn about Linux also applies to FreeBSD, and that is specifically for the "how to use a desktop environment or GUI" question. For using the base operating system (command line, programming interface), they are more like 95% similar. The biggest difference comes in how to install and administer the desktop environment or GUI: In most Linux distributions, those come pre-installed and ready to use; on FreeBSD, you have to install and configure it yourself; that's why only 70% or 80%.

Having said that, the 20% or 30% differences may drive you insane. I completely agree with the advice above of starting by reading the FreeBSD Handbook.
 
Kelly_Chui said:
Recently, I was interested in operating systems other than Windows or macOS, so I came across freeBSD while looking for it. However, after installing freeBSD, it was a challenge from installing and applying DE,
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It's a mistake to talk about it being a challenge applying a DE, as if was a problem installing the base OS. FreeBSD is the OS and after you have installed it, it just a matter of installing an application on top of it.

After you have FreeBSD installed, and you want a GUI, you need to decide which one. There are lots to choose from. They are simply additional programs (pkgs) that you need to add.

To install a GUI check:-

docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org
 
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