[parker_mountain]

I'd say that if you're trying to find the Mint/Ubuntu/Zorin/elementary of BSD, then it's not really for you. The BSD ecosystem isn't really driven by ease of use, today they're more interested in various niches - hardware appliances, OS research, etc.

If you're curious about what unix is and what a bsd is, I would recommend netbsd or openbsd in a vm.

[Apocryphon]

Well of course they're not trying to replace macOS, for instance, but when an OS gets big enough to have offshoots and different front-ends and desktop environments and so forth, one would assume there are at least experimental attempts emphasizing ease of use, just like there are experiments to develop offshoots for any other purpose, from power users to pen testers. At least like, someone's toy project on GitHub or SourceForge. I just assumed BSD was big and well-established enough to have such efforts.

Besides GhostBSD, looks like there's also Lumina, MidnightBSD, FuryBSD, and TrueOS/Project Trident?

https://lumina-desktop.org

http://www.midnightbsd.org

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=furybsd

https://itsfoss.com/trueos-bsd-review/

[parker_mountain]

> experimental attempts emphasizing ease of use

yes, i would define them very much as experimental

[Apocryphon]

Sure, but that does mean that there are BSD projects driven by ease of use as their niche.

[stonogo]

They're definitely trying to replace MacOS: https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

[fullstop]

I installed NetBSD in a VM last week, and it felt like I was using Linux from 20 years ago.

[miah_]

Is that a bad thing?

[fullstop]

For some things I felt a bit nostalgic, but for other things, not so much.

It was a neat experience and worth doing.