Quoth Tony Mc on Wednesday, 14 September 2011: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:27:22 +0200 > Michal Varga <varga.mic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have no other words beyond that because I can't even seriously > > imagine what those people stating how everything is perfectly fine > > now consider to be a working, modern, 24/7 ready desktop workstation. > > I am interested to know what you regard as a modern 24/7 ready desktop > workstation. Seriously, I would like to know what you think I am > missing by being happy with FreeBSD. I manage to read stuff, write > stuff, print stuff, listen to stuff, watch stuff, backup stuff, archive > stuff, burn CDs and DVDs - what am I missing? I use tcsh > and command-line tools and Emacs and org-mode and LaTeX and claws-mail > and Firefox and Rhythmbox and JPilot to sync with my Palm TX. When > people send me Microsoft Office documents I even use LibreOffice > occasionally. I use XFCE4 as my desktop environment and switch virtual > desktops to focus on different kinds of activity. The computer runs > 24/7 and performs housekeeping tasks overnight and is there again in > the morning when I need to start work. > > I suppose my needs aren't that sophisticated - but I also wonder if > what is missing is truly sophistication or simply different ways of > accomplishing existing tasks. So if you have the time I would genuinely > be interested to learn what a modern desktop machine now needs or > offers. > > Best, > Tony
By contrast, I avoid the GUI stuff as much as I can. I use a tiling window manager and almost everything I do, from writing code to listening to music, happens in a terminal window. My editor is vim, and my MUA is mutt. Yet as different as our desktop experiences are, FreeBSD powers them both. One of the reasons I like FreeBSD for the desktop is that I can make it anything I want. With Windows, I have to accept how Windows works -- the ability to customize that experience is extremely limited. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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