From: Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com>
To: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:57:57 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFwmL86sdCGcb90JAnUYxdFrMdDjXimDZf_u7MZ9dNd1nHrr-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6hg2scs.fsf@thufir.floren.lan>
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On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 2:53 PM John Floren via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> writes:
> [snip]
> > restore. GUI? KDE and Xfce work... not my faves, but better than Gnome
> > for my taste. My only gripe with it is that I run a huge number of
> [snip]
>
> Ok so I've always been confused by how often I see this come
> up... don't FreeBSD, and Debian, and Ubuntu, and Redhat, and OpenBSD,
> etc. all ship a huge variety of window managers and desktop environments
> right there in the package manager? I guess I haven't run Gnome in 15
> years but everything else I ever want (fvwm, xfce, stumpwm, twm, KDE) is
> always available with a quick install command.
>
> I remember for a long time people would talk about how they were going
> to install Xubuntu or Kubuntu or Lubuntu because they didn't like the
> Gnome interface on Ubuntu... blow away your whole root partition rather
> than run "apt-get install kde"?
>
> john
>
I thought most desktops (specifically Xfce, GNOME, KDE) required Wayland
and SystemD these days? Wouldn't that rule out *BSD?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-07 6:47 [TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-07 9:09 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-03-07 11:04 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-07 13:08 ` Ben Kallus
2024-03-07 13:16 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-03-08 1:15 ` Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-08 3:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 3:57 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 3:58 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 6:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-08 11:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-08 14:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:01 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-08 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-08 15:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:45 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 15:50 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 15:28 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 23:18 ` [TUHS] FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-03-08 23:43 ` [TUHS] " Will Senn
2024-03-08 23:50 ` John Floren via TUHS
2024-03-08 23:57 ` Michael Huff [this message]
2024-03-09 0:16 ` [TUHS] Re: FreeBSD kernel not OK? Alexis
2024-03-09 17:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-03-09 9:53 ` Harald Arnesen via TUHS
2024-03-09 15:34 ` Gregg Levine
2024-03-08 23:45 ` [TUHS] Re: FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?) segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-07 13:31 ` [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? Brantley Coile
2024-03-07 14:23 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-07 14:45 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2024-03-07 14:38 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-07 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-07 15:56 ` Thomas Kellar
2024-03-07 16:12 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:33 ` ron minnich
2024-03-07 18:32 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:03 ` Jim Capp
2024-03-07 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-07 21:21 ` Adam Thornton
2024-03-07 22:25 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-07 22:20 ` Åke Nordin
2024-03-07 22:32 ` Mike Markowski
2024-03-07 23:58 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 16:23 ` Stuff Received
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