I may add: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:50:07 +0100, Freminlins <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used FreeBSD on the desktop for about 6 years (but not yet running > 7.2). It has mostly been a pleasure.
I'd like to say that I'm using FreeBSD on the desktop exclusively since version 4.0 and I've always been quite happy with it. No problems at all - since the big crash. When I was "forced" to use FreeBSD 7, I was a bit disappointed, I can honestly say this. But that has NEVER been a problem with the FreeBSD OS, but always with additional packages, so I won't blame the FreeBSD developers who deliver a faster system with every release - just to see that the installed packages (like X, browsers, OpenOffice etc.) just run slower and slower with each new version, and that's sad. > I didn't like it when X was changed to > individual packages, as it now takes considerably longer to install. And the > output from pkg_info takes correspondingly longer to search through. It also > installs two scripting languages (Perl and Python). I haven't had a problem > configuring X for years. Especially because I'm running a quite old system, I am not interested in (or depending on) the new magical autodetection and autoconfiguration stuff - because it simply doesn't work for my hardware. I can't even set my screen size to 1400x1050 as I could in "old" XFree86, so I have to use xrandr. I always liked FreeBSD and its additional software for NOT having to mess around with in such a way. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned. :-) > If something has changed which then causes problems to end users, then that > is not good. And it's no good telling people "use PCBSD" or something else. PC-BSD has its own set of problems. Different ones, I agree, but they do exist. Especially the bad german internationalisation of KDE comes into mind. And you have to use quite up-to-date hardware. > That's not what we want. We want to use FreeBSD on the desktop. Exactly. > Don't try and put people off using FreeBSD. It would be much better to help > them resolves the problems they are having. I agree with this, and it's the purpose of this helpful and polite mailing list. But it requires that users who seek help do this in a certain way. Things like "OS bashing" do not help. But I can understand the wish to express feelings of disappointment. I just question if this mailing list is the place to do so. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
