On March 6, Ed Maste wrote this (bold mine to highlight the section that relates to this discussion):
One high-level comment is that our goal is to take a narrow but deep focus: we'd rather have one laptop model where all functionality works completely, than having several mostly functional models where for example one has an audio quirk with headphone switching not working and another where the special function keys don't work. I understand the feedback that we need additional models though, and there are candidates for inclusion in the supported list. Thinkpads and Dell business laptops are already in the list; a few folks mentioned HP Elitebook and it seems like a reasonable addition to the candidates. We'll probably create a tiered list, where the first tier meets the criteria mentioned (multiple developers with that model, vendor support, target 100% functionality). The second tier would not meet all of the criteria, but still has some relationship to our effort (e.g., at least one developer has the model, we know what is functional). *This is the same argument for focusing on KDE to start -- we'd preferone desktop environment where everything works, than two partiallyfunctional ones. This doesn't mean that work on GLib or othercomponents is out of scope, just that KDE will be the environment weuse to test and measure our progress.* --- Greg Wallace On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan < mbzade...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why FreeBSD should not have this facility to encourage new users to use > FreeBSD? > > The first step on encouraging new users is that do not shift them to use > other OS (even based on FreeBSD) > > I will try desktop-installer on their laptops and report any problem here. > > Thank you. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 11:58 Michael Schuster <michaelspriv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You could try GhostBSD. >> >> Michael >> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 20:07 Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan < >> mbzade...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone >>> >>> I use FreeBSD to teach university courses and encourage students to use >>> FreeBSD. >>> Almost all of my students want to have the FreeBSD operating system on >>> their laptops, either virtual or real, to start with, and I encounter the >>> problem of installing a desktop environment on all laptops every day, and >>> unfortunately, students still cannot install a simple environment like xfce >>> or mate on their laptops despite spending a lot of time. >>> >>> Now I had a suggestion: >>> >>> Is it possible to provide a FreeBSD image with the X environment as the >>> default, along with various ISO or IMG files or even VMs? So that students >>> can automatically boot with the X environment by installing it? >>> >>> Otherwise, is it possible to include a script in the operating system so >>> that users can automatically install a simple environment like XFCE by >>> running that script? >>> >>> -- >>> ---------------------------------------------------- >>> *~ Mohamad, * >>> *M.Sc. Cryptography* >>> >>>
