Mastodawn

Actually mad rn about how obtuse the instructions are for installing #BSD ( #openbsd #freebsd) with a desktop environment all set up. I don't think I'm a *dumb* person - these guys have had literal decades to make an installer that "normal" people can use, and the fact it's in the state it's in tells me: "this isn't for you, filthy casual".

If you believe in your OS, I'd think you'd want it to be more accessible, but I guess the barrier to entry makes for bragging points.

#computers #tech

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Mark 🇨🇦💪

@not3ottersinacoat there are user friendly FreeBSD "distros" like GhostBSD and others I think? my beef with openbsd was really just the autopartitioning, it doesn't fully utilize large drives efficiently.. for the rest of the install I found a guide and had xfce up and running fine with only a half dozen commands. But I totally get what you are saying..

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Emma Liv 14h ago

@mark The problem with following a guide (aside from making sure it's current and relevant) is I learned a long time ago (thanks Linux!) not to blindly follow instructions I don't understand. and if the official documentation doesn't shine a light on what the guide is saying, then we've hit a wall. Maybe it's my particular need to understand to a certain level, and not being able to meet that threshold, that is frustrating me here.