I just gave #helloSystem a try on my laptop.
Both the experimental-14.0 and the 0.8.1 releases, using #Ventoy.
It looks awesome - highly polished, great auto-configuration/detection of hardware. It could really make BSD newbie-friendly.
Then again, I won't use it as a desktop in the foreseeable future:
"helloSystem has no dark mode and dark mode support is currently not on our roadmap. It is not essential to what we are trying to create (a productivity-oriented desktop). In fact, black text on white background was one key achievement of the early Xerox and Apple GUIs over the usual text-mode screens of the time (green or amber on black background). Let's not fall back to the "dark times".
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Likewise, helloSystem has no theming support and theming support is currently not on our roadmap. It is not essential to what we are trying to create (a productivity-oriented desktop)."
Well, my productivity-oriented desktop disagrees. With a hard no.
https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/145