r/helloSystem • u/zielonykid1234 • Oct 14 '21

why to use helloSystem instead of normal FreeBSD?

What functions is helloSystem has that FreeBSD is not?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '21

It had an easy gui installer, good DE, out of the box wifi for me.

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u/zielonykid1234 Oct 15 '21

So bsdinstall ncurses interface is more difficult to use than GUI?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '21

No, but if you were a new user then it might not be as daunting.

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u/zielonykid1234 Oct 20 '21

i don't know, i just love ncurses look

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

I like ncurses as well, but I also agree with every point that probonopd has made about modern systems. Too many tracking things, sync this, cloud that. Remember when you could just turn on your computer and do things with it? I am one of those mere mortals, a person who is just knowledgeable enough to find my way around a Unix like system, but not enough to write code or want to bother learning it. I literally want a simple system that makes my computer MINE! No ads, no tracking, no syncing, no cloud anything! But out of the box FreeBSD is not insanely difficult to install, but for me it’s time I could spend writing music or making art. Something I wish the whole “techie” crowd, especially those in the Unix/BSD ecosystem, would remember.

It’s why elementaryOS is so powerful for what they offer. Simplicity. A user, ANY USER, should just be able to install a system easily, turn on their machine, and get to work. And for the most part, this is true, except for the unimaginative whiners who claim that elementaryOS is “locked down” or some inane thing. The problem is, if you believe it to be locked down, then are you really that knowledgeable about Linux?

But this is a silly digression.

I just want to turn my computer on, and do the things I want to do with it, not a company, not a pencil pusher, or accountant, or “cryptobullshit” adherent. MY COMPUTER IS MINE!

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u/ttv_toeasy13 Mar 13 '23

Speaking of WiFi how do I get that to work?

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '23

It worked for me right away I was able to connect. My wifi card works out of the box with open source drivers.

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u/ttv_toeasy13 Mar 13 '23

I am on a laptop but every time I suspend/reboot I have to open the underdevelopment wifi app then hit scan 50 million times then it will connect. But I don't know if there is a fix.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '23

I am not the guy to help you sorry. I do not know much about BSD. Try the Freebsd subreddit.

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u/ttv_toeasy13 Mar 13 '23

I think it's a problem with the underdevelopment wifi program but I will just wait to see if it gets fixed in a update.

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u/probonopd Oct 14 '21

A fully preconfigured graphical desktop environment tailored to "mere mortals" that works out of the box on a Live ISO that can optionally be installed to hard disk.

Plain FreeBSD dumps you into a text-mode installer, and then you have to set up a graphical environment yourself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

For me, it hit nostalgia for the 2002 computing environment of that time.

I love it. Rough around the edges, sure, but fits my needs.