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> Edit: I'm also playing around with FreeBSD for my development environment, since I can use Mate on there. To be honest, I don't really need a DE these days an
by autoreleasepool 11y ago
> Edit: I'm also playing around with FreeBSD for my development environment, since I can use Mate on there. To be honest, I don't really need a DE these days anyway, since I only use terminal and a web browser. I should look into just using a Windows Manager.
FreeBSD has good support for DEs with XFCE and Lumina, anyways. At least I've never had a problem.
- eatonphil 11y agoI've been running Mate and Gnome3 for the past 6 months as well. Mate had some issues and, for both, the screen went black for 1-2 seconds when videos start playing. I was able to get a compositor (Compiz) working on Mate and this fixed the tearing issue. It had some issues where it just kept crashing and rebooting that I never figured out. So I switched back to Gnome3. Although Gnome3 comes with a compositor (I think? And I think it might be Compiz?), I can't seem to get rid of the screen going black when a video starts. But it really doesn't make a big difference and it's not a big enough annoyance to matter. I don't really use FreeBSD for media anyway. It's just the auto-play videos on Facebook that triggers the infrequent frustration.
- autoreleasepool 11y agoMe either. Media is definitely not my use case. I'm running FreeBSD in a VM on top of OS X as a host anyways, so graphics support is likely more stable for me for that reason. I think Lumina is looking really promising, though. I recommend giving it a try if you have the time.