MidnightBSD 2.0.1 install on VMWare Workstation 16

[@patrickprucha5522]

excellent video. Thank you!

[@leighhorton2806]

Hello Lucas I am using you os and so far it is showing up many distros I have tested over the last 2 years including freebsd and ghostbsd. On a new machine many of them worked quite will. On older 386 PC's many issues with all but Ubuntu. Now I have midnight on my 386 with a good video card. I would like your recommendation on a desktop ? Leigh Horton

[@LucasHolt]

On an older system, I would stick with something with light memory consumption. While it's a bit less user friendly, I might try something like windowmaker or the windowmaker-desktop port which includes some handy add-ons. WindowMaker + GWorkspace would give you file management. If you're willing to go a little more bare metal, there are several other older window managers that might work out including openbox, afterstep, ratpoison, blackbox, or fluxbox. Web browsers are more tricky. Text browsers would work like lynx and links of course, but if you want something a bit more modern, try netsurf.

[@kopp1948]

Generally I like BSD. It's not clear that MidnightBSD is much easier to use, however, than FreeBSD, so new users should be prepared for a learning curve.

[@LucasHolt]

There's some learning curve with all the BSDs. I'd agree that we haven't hit the usability target we set out for at the beginning yet. This video is for 2.0.x though, and we've made some improvements in 3.1 to configure additional graphics drivers on installation. We also had a lot more comprehensive package manager than FreeBSD for a long time, and went package first with mport earlier. mport predates the newer pkg implementation in FreeBSD. They've done great work since on improving that.

[@kopp1948]

@@LucasHolt My initial impression of 3.1 is favorable, though I have not yet installed it. You can log in as root and "poweroff" if you just wanted to see whether it supports the hardware.

[@rubenproost2552]

Bit like linux in the mid nineties