MidnightBSD

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Reader supplied reviews for MidnightBSD Average rating 1.6 from 5 review(s) What are your thoughts on MidnightBSD? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.0.02.2.02.1.12.01.21.10.80.70.60.50.40.30.2.10.1.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.0.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-09-13 Votes: 1 Its maximum contradictory to claim a "OS for everyone", yet have to go through commends and GitHub to get anything done in terms of Download and installation. Why is it for some OS developers so important to make everything artificial complicated, when you have other examples, downloading the dawn ISO and installing it, with extra fancy knowledge or what ever it takes to install an OS. I love to try different Linux derivatives and so far, most of them are user-friendly to begin with, but then there are these “special” kind of distros, showing it right in the first second. This has to get an own “search rubric” on Distrowatch, for people who feel pleasure in complicated and hideous installation variants. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: Rating: 2 Date: 2023-01-21 Votes: 0 Similar to FreeBSD but a lot slower. Offers automatic setup of a desktop environment on first boot. If you choose to do so a lengthy install follows where the console is spammed with "XXX Rated" so you don't have time to read what is actually happening. When it's finished you can log into an Xfce environment. Xorg in MidnightBSD doesn't work properly in Virtualbox for me. The cursor is only movable within a limited area och it doesn't match where you are actually pointing. Tested version is 2.2.6. The project logo is nice at least. 1 point for being BSD and 1 point for easy installation of Xorg. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.2.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2022-06-14 Votes: 0 Ugh. My my. I went into this expecting something akin to GhostBSD (which STILL can't detect many common network cards and STILL has to have wpa suppliant build from scratch, etc) which has many ongoing problems but at least can give us a GUI right off the live CD/DVD. This Midnight thing is even more immature as a project and not worth the time and effort of any but diehard bog reporters and other BSD enthusiasts with more than an inkling of hope for BSD in general. FreeBSD is a better bet as the documentation is amazing and a dedicated user can actually build a great BSD working computer OS. Not so with this MidnightBSD mess, unfortunately. I noticed that the main tech reviewers of MidnightBSD say openly that they "don't want to disrespect the developer" by saying how thin, unusable it is.. well.. sometimes that would be helpful as it might get them going on actually finishing the project. Right now, as of June of 2022, the MidnightBSD project is without wheels or even a steering wheel. No 0 rating available, so 1. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 5 reader reviews of MidnightBSD...