I don’t dual boot anything… with bare metal installs, it’s the only O/S on that machine / hard drive… so MBR/GPT isn’t usually an issue for me…
Before embarking on my recent checkout of GhostBSD - I took a look at it using VirtualBox first… worked okay… so I tried it on bare metal… Thinkpad W500, and a Gigabyte Brix “NUC”… I probably won’t use it for much - but it makes for a decent terminal experience on the W500’s 1980 x 1200 15" display - I used it recently to do some work - but I relied on a remote connection to a Ubuntu PC for VPN client to my Office WAN - it was hard enough to get Checkpoint VPN client working in Ubuntu - wasn’t going to even consider that on BSD…
I barely use the Brix - so offered it to my daughter - but she won’t try Linux (never mind BSD!) - so I’ll have to install Windows 10 on there for her… I did investigate getting it working as a Hackintosh - but that’s way too much work!
after reading the itsfoss article about NomadBSD (based on FreeBSD), i decided to give it a spin. it comes with openbox and gparted says the usb was written with ufs which i hadn’t heard of previously. it was interesting until i tried to update and that locked everything up and made it mostly unusable on reboot. i will have to rewrite the image and take another look.
I thought I had seen a review of on Distrowwatch - you may care to look at it first before doing anything more with- https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20180813#nomadbsd
I often look at the reviews on there along with any on Its Foss if there is one, before trying something.
I just switched from MX-Linux to FreeBSD and I love it. Linux is fantastic, but most of my stuff involves the internet and FreeBSD leaves Linux in the dust when it comes to the internet. If I were doing a database or record keeping, I definitely would have stayed with MX-Linux. I spend a lot of time on social media and I do a lot of internet searches. My download and upload speeds are super-fast while FreeBSD updates are very slow compared to Linux.
I’m using FreeBSD and running Chromium, Cliqz Internet, as well as Firefox and all three work well for me. I am using the latest version of FreeBSD, if that information helps you. Be well and best wishes.
one of these days i want to take another run at getting a desktop environment to work on freebsd. i will probably try that in a virtual machine to give myself more time to think things through in case they don’t go as planned. if you have any words of wisdom in that regard, i would be happy to hear them.
it has been a while since i used mxlinux, but think i recall that it used xfce. did you add that to your freebsd or try something else?
Well I did check it (NomadBSD) out - and it’s pretty goshdarn awesome I must say! The OpenBox desktop looks 10,000x more elegant than the Hasbro/Mattel Toy feel of RPi foundation’s “Pixel” implementation of LXQT on OpenBox (which I don’t use - I use XFCE on RPi).
Running it through its paces right now on my normally Windows10 work laptop (Dell Platitude E7450) and it’s quite snappy… Going to give it a whirl on a “modern” Lenovo laptop I keep at home (yet another corporate SOE/MOE for work) - and maybe even try it on my ancient Lenovo Stinkpad W500 - as it seem pretty “lite”…
Quote from article above “When software gets bloated it not only becomes more insecure and more error prone, but it also becomes much slower.” Pissed myself reading this article
Hey Dude and Linus-T meet mini-Trisquel and lets play find the boat - sorry bloat -
Guess I will be giving BSD a wide berth - excuse the pun
Hey guys - guess what - itsFOSS have reviewed it - bet it differs from DistroWatch review - I would put money on it x 100
Psssssssst - any used RAM figures - 280MiB ring any
x 100 
