helloSystem

Reader supplied reviews for helloSystem Average rating 4.8 from 6 review(s) What are your thoughts on helloSystem? 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: -- 0.8.1 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: 0.8.1 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-08-01 Votes: 51 Booting from the live image is painfully slow, but once installed on bare metal, it works well and is a stable, pleasant enough desktop. It boots, connects, surfs, and sleeps fine and looks good. Sure, it's aspirational and is no macOS, but it's a great demonstration of a Freebsd spin that will be of interest to enthusiasts. The developer seems motivated and responsive to feedback. It would be good to see the project continue to develop and help the broader community and upstream with useful refinements here and there. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.8.1 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-04-19 Votes: 49 This project has so much promise! I keep this installed on my secondary computer - it’s not ready as a daily driver, nor does it claim to be. While aesthetically very pleasing, there are some rough edges. The main issues I run into are in fact FreeBSD issues that I get also on GhostBSD with the Linuxulator - trying to run Linux applications. For example, SublimeText is not fully functional, and has to be restarted after installing plugins. The VSCode menu doesn’t work in the global menu, so I have to use the window menu. I first installed this due to the promise of a creator oriented system. It’s a long way off from that goal, mainly due to a misbehaving Linuxulator - again, all FreeBSD issues. It appears some work is being done on that aspect, I’m looking forward to both that and the possibility of being able to use AppImage on FreeBSD which has a notoriously limited repository. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.8.1 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-03-18 Votes: 0 Having waited 8 minutes for the system to boot on a machine that Xubuntu Linux boots in 45 seconds I began to feel lumpy. Badly stymied setting up internet connexion (couldn't). No 'dock' down the bottom. Awfully sorry, but that is as far as I got before I reverted to Xubuntu. Until the boot time is significantly reduced and WiFi connexion is as easy as it is in Debian derivatives I am not coming back. This is a great shame as I have been wanting to experiment with a UNIX sort of system for years, and, to date, never found one that is easy to set up and get started with. Of course, the main problem may be that the HELP system is not up to scratch: even if I only looked for internet connexion setup . . . Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 6 reader reviews of helloSystem...