Best first desktop BSD distro

[J. Hellenthal]

First I would recommend posting to the correct mailing list. Second I 
would recommend as much googling as your fingers can stand. Third BSD != 
Linux and this has been discussed in depth in previous articles. Fourth 
and foremost I would place a pretty good bet that Paris Hilton could setup 
and run a FreeBSD desktop.

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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:16, jhsu802701@ wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts on making the move from Linux to BSD.  I'm not 
> making the move because I don't like Linux.  Instead, I want to learn 
> BSD.  I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to 
> adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing, 
> etc.).  But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me. 
> It would take too long to configure FreeBSD to my liking.  I couldn't 
> figure out what to enter in GRUB to multi-boot Linux and BSD.  I tried 
> PC-BSD, GhostBSD, and DragonflyBSD in VirtualBox.  I've found PC-BSD 
> agonizingly slow to install and operate, and KDE didn't even boot up 
> when I logged in.  GhostBSD has too many things that don't work, such as 
> the keyboard on my laptop and my Internet connection on my desktop. 
> DragonflyBSD didn't boot up in Virtualbox.
>
> I recommend Linux Mint as a first Linux distro.  It's user-friendly, 
> well-established, widely used, includes codecs/drivers that Ubuntu 
> doesn't, and has a Windows-like user interface.  For those with older 
> computers, I recommend Puppy Linux or antiX Linux as a first distro. 
> I'm looking for the analogous choice in the BSD world.
>
> So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro?  What desktop 
> BSD distro is so easy to use that even Paris Hilton can handle it?
>
> Please keep in mind that I have a slow Internet connection, and these 
> BSD distros are ENORMOUS.  It took some 12-14 hours to download PC-BSD.
>
>




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  J. Hellenthal
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