A FreeBSD desktop (opens in new tab)

I've been fond of FreeBSD since I first used it around version 9, when it was the base of FreeNAS 9.x back in 2012, and my wild customisations of that software taught me how FreeBSD worked and I liked how it stayed closed to the UNIX philosophy and was a minimal but tightly integrated base system+applications that stayed distinct compared with a well worn in Linux installation that quickly blurs the boundaries. In all that time though, I have never once tried using it as a desktop system, I'v...