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The BSD in general (I mostly know FreeBSD, but I doubt OpenBSD is much better) haven't been perfect for running desktop software, and especially the big desktop
by Wilya 14y ago
The BSD in general (I mostly know FreeBSD, but I doubt OpenBSD is much better) haven't been perfect for running desktop software, and especially the big desktop environments, for a long time. If they ever were adequate.
It can be done, but with quite a bit of tweaking, battling strange inconsistencies, and in the end, missing some functionality compared to the same thing on linux. Possible, but not by any stretch a core value proposition or a major component direction of the projects (whatever they officially say). Or at least, not the successful projects.
Sucks to see a lot of things becoming linux-specific, but in a ton of these cases, the impact on the BSDs will be minimal.
- iso-8859-1 14y agoIsn't this the goal of PC-BSD? As far as I know, it is no failure.
- Wilya 14y agoI wouldn't call it a failure, but it's not really a success either. At least not yet. I don't know anyone who uses it, nor do I really hear about it apart from the people developing it. Sometimes, people mention it, in a "Maybe you should try PC-BSD, I've heard it's good" kind of way, but that's as far as it goes.
- pconf 14y agoIt's working for me, but KDE4 isn't nearly as user-friendly as KDE3