NomadBSD

Reader supplied reviews for NomadBSD Average rating 8.1 from 30 review(s) What are your thoughts on NomadBSD? 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: -- 131r130r1.41.3.21.21.1 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: 131r Rating: 10 Date: 2023-04-04 Votes: 0 If you have an older video card, watch out. The first thing you need to do is edit /etc/rc.conf. Change kld_list="radeonkms" and reboot your system. All the error messages go away, and your video card works properly. My i-7 literally flies and everything works as it should. Once that is done, install it. You will be amazed at how fast your system runs. By the way, don't install any programs until you put Nomad onto your hard drive. Why, because it works slowly on a stick. Since installing it onto my hard drive, downloading and uploading has also improved. This is FreeBSD at its best, in my opinion. Sadly, I spent hours attempting to get FreeBSD 13.1 to run on my Dell Studio XPS 8100. This unit was built in 2009, and FreeBSD no longer supports their original video drivers. Instead, FreeBSD uses a video driver, Cuse for BSD. That driver causes the video cards to run faster than designed, and the cards stop working because of over-heating. After setting this up, I won't be returning to Linux anytime in the near future. My distro hopping days are over. I am willing to bet that GhostBSD, NomadBSD, and many other BSD have seen numerous complaints since updating to FreeBSD 13.1's official release, and this single issue of the video card driver is responsible for causing all the error messages. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 131r Rating: 10 Date: 2023-02-06 Votes: 3 Very polished system and uses very little resources. Runs fast and was easy to install. The install does everythig for you. All of the peripherals were recognized and they worked perfectly out of the box. The system is very stable and i have not had any issues with it. The openbox window manager looks very nice and professional. Everything is easy to make it look the way you want. It is easy for those who want to transition to BSD and not have to worry about things not working. Recommend to anyone. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 131r Rating: 7 Date: 2023-01-27 Votes: 0 TL;DR This is the only "what"BSD that interested me because it features persistence on external USB disk. I tried it once, before the Dec-2022 update but it was less usable than it is now. Either way, it cannot recognize the touchpad of my 10-year-old budget HP laptop. It takes a fairly long time to start, like any Linux with KDE Plasma maybe except EndeavourOS or Q4OS LOL. After it asked me for specific settings such as keyboard layout, it asked me to reboot. I did so, in single-user mode but it went right into the desktop without asking me for the password. Is that normal? It seems to behave like Linux system equipped with a window manager. Right-button mouse click on panel to close a program won't be to everyone's taste. Recalling a new panel "theme" with "Tint2", to change its settings is very slow. For one of them I only wanted to change its position, because both the panel and "Plank" were at the bottom. It consistently runs hot on the left-hand side of my 10-year-old laptop. I have a lot of trouble getting any Linux installation to be alike. It comes with some programs such as Geany (better than the editor proposed in the initial setup) and VLC (which is garbage in any distro), but no office suite. It's because the file system "image" is already 4GB uncompressed. Web browser is Firefox (with "UBlock Origin" preinstalled!) but probably a different one could be installed. This OS also comes with the "older" release of Thunar (ie. no split view and customizable keystroke shortcuts). To view PDF files there's Qpdfview which absurdly, is located in the AUR in Arch Linux world. I did the full-system update with OctoPkg. It took a long time to finish. Before that the OctoPkg was on the dock on the bottom of the screen, but it took itself off. It seems it is set to display packages already installed on the system, and I have to open web browser to "FreeBSD ports" site or whatever to discover what else could be installed. The DSBMC doesn't seem to find all the partitions of my computer, in particular of an internal hard disk when the system is booted via external USB. It came up with ESP, the C: drive of Windows and other NTFS partitions but missed one of the "ext4" partitions (32-bit Slackware) probably because the latter doesn't have an EFI entry. (I was unable to boot this system itself via UEFI which is interesting.) The app to mount partitions doesn't recall disk or partition labels which could put off somebody not confident working with an Unix-like OS. I wish I could disable the stupid animations which are for small children. The Handbook is pretty good, might be too brief, could be read offline but unfortunately some information such as that for DSBMC and for using Linux programs causes an online visit. I should spend weeks with this system to be able to give more useful information that would satisfy an "expert". This was for NomadBSD for 64-bit and "ZFS". Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 30 reader reviews of NomadBSD...