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Well, I meant in terms of "plug it in and it appears on your desktop". When I'm coding, I don't have a desktop, nor any wish for one. All I do on this box --

by may 16y ago

Well, I meant in terms of "plug it in and it appears on your desktop". When I'm coding, I don't have a desktop, nor any wish for one. All I do on this box -- by design -- is code and spend too much time on e-mail/HN/reddit/etc. If I need to work with a digital camera or a flash drive, I just reboot into Ubuntu and do it quickly there. FreeBSD is strictly for work (in theory). I've only mounted stuff under FreeBSD maybe once in the past year or two, so it isn't even on the list for me. So, from my point of view as a software developer who lives in Firefox and Emacs, it's shiny. Others differ. But for me, it's not required, at all.

nailer 16y ago
> When I'm coding, I don't have a desktop, nor any wish for one. How do you read docs without a web browser?
- kd0amg 16y ago
  Why do you need a desktop to have a web browser? ¬_¬
  - nailer 16y ago
    Window management would be required to align the web browser with the terminal windows. A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content.
    - kd0amg 16y ago
      A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content. It does, but after using one for a while, most of it seems superfluous.
- _pra 16y ago
  He probably means he's using a simple window manager (twm, fvwm, etc) instead of the fancy everything-managers that include desktop functionality. X alone doesn't provide that -- think back to Windows 3.1 days. You had a background, but not a desktop.
  - nailer 16y ago
    I figured something like that. I generally avoid using the term 'Window Manager' because none of twm, fvwm, blackbox, enlightenment, etc. only provide window management - there's almost always some included app launcher.
- may 16y ago
  _pra is right. I use a very lightweight tiling window manager called dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/). I do have a desktop background, though I rarely ever see it. What I meant was I don't have a desktop in the Windows/Mac OS X sense -- a place with icons, documents, mounted drives and the like.

by may 16y ago

nailer 16y ago

> When I'm coding, I don't have a desktop, nor any wish for one. How do you read docs without a web browser?

kd0amg 16y ago
Why do you need a desktop to have a web browser? ¬_¬
- nailer 16y ago
  Window management would be required to align the web browser with the terminal windows. A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content.
  - kd0amg 16y ago
    A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content. It does, but after using one for a while, most of it seems superfluous.
_pra 16y ago
He probably means he's using a simple window manager (twm, fvwm, etc) instead of the fancy everything-managers that include desktop functionality. X alone doesn't provide that -- think back to Windows 3.1 days. You had a background, but not a desktop.
- nailer 16y ago
  I figured something like that. I generally avoid using the term 'Window Manager' because none of twm, fvwm, blackbox, enlightenment, etc. only provide window management - there's almost always some included app launcher.
may 16y ago
_pra is right. I use a very lightweight tiling window manager called dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/). I do have a desktop background, though I rarely ever see it. What I meant was I don't have a desktop in the Windows/Mac OS X sense -- a place with icons, documents, mounted drives and the like.