Supports UFS (i.e. FFS) installation, having troubles with ZFS EFI works out-of-the-box, my current default EFI manager is rEFInd, efibootmgr required in the packages for further EFI arguments Pre-brought with a graphical shell, written in Qt for best Privacy flavoured, i.e. doesn't track every people Finally to be recommended to beginners like a success from TrueOS

Looking for the following BSD project for long term practice

hd_scania

Supports UFS (i.e. FFS) installation, having troubles with ZFS
EFI works out-of-the-box, my current default EFI manager is rEFInd, efibootmgr required in the packages for further EFI arguments
Pre-brought with a graphical shell, written in Qt for best
Privacy flavoured, i.e. doesn't track every people
Finally to be recommended to beginners like a success from TrueOS

Not my thing, but sounds like you are asking for project-trident

JuvenalUrbino

FreeBSD is the only one providing native support for efibootmgr(8) in base (linked relative and very well written FBSD manpage). Any derivative should have it too.

Providing the fact TrueOS and GhostBSD are the only FreeBSD distribution providing a graphical installer and a pre-configured desktop, and that TrueOS only supports ZFS root (Lumina DE is entirely designed around the ZFS paradigm, with boot envs, snapshots, compression, dedup and wast else), your choice is pretty much limited to GhostBSD, which among the other things, uses Grub2 as default bootloader/bootmanager, by bypassing FBSD's loader() and calling the kernel directly wihout chainloading.

By the way, what's your problem with ZFS? I confess I prefer UFS2 too on desktop,being simpler and more lightweight, but surely ZFS has its own good pros to be picked out