What's the most casual user-friendly distro of *BSD out there? GhostBSD?
The way I like to explain it is. if you like the unix operating environment, It is hard to do better than openbsd for a desktop system. If you are expecting something more like a mac or windows environment, there are options, but I suspect you would be better off with linux(or mac or windows for that matter).
Openbsd is comfortable in a way that is hard to explain. While largely this is just what what a person is used to. with obsd I have a good feel on how it works and goes together. something I never really felt with linux. however you do lose a lot of the network effect advantages that linux has.
The different BSDs aren't distros, they are different kernels that are developed in parallel. Obviously there's shared history there, and some shared userspace, but FreeBSD and OpenBSD aren't just two different BSD distros of largely the same software.
I can't even fathom how many times I've made a mess from my impulses to tidy up my system and it just manages to "fix itself".
There are also a lot of neat things, like being able to use multiple versions of GCC side by side. Not every distro behaves well on that regard.
If you're curious about what unix is and what a bsd is, I would recommend netbsd or openbsd in a vm.
Besides GhostBSD, looks like there's also Lumina, MidnightBSD, FuryBSD, and TrueOS/Project Trident?
yes, i would define them very much as experimental
It was a neat experience and worth doing.
These days it’s a lot more Linux-y though.
MacOS?