I’ve never even tried DesktopBSD but is has the exact same goal as PC-BSD (which, of course, I tried and it’s pretty neat :)). DesktopBSD never really got that much attention, compared to PC-BSD and it’s sad to see this project slowly fading away if no one steps in after the main dev is abandoning it… So long, and thanks for all the fish 
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