Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!raspberry.therandymon.com!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:17:22 -0400 Organization: solani.org Lines: 14 Message-ID: <8737efp6t9.fsf@therandymon.com> References: <878to8wtxk.fsf@therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: solani.org 1489548602 23475 eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXBrQFz5lz/f8EE5ZCX0MUaHp0OA3XO4nMGmcoLC93G/s/64locO8AGxcFDRAo (15 Mar 2017 03:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:30:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cI9p6Z2Bv0LzUPiiSGbtAMLa1I8= sha1:p9cz9e9w+3fvfQGEDPQq8eaqono= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQEBwDAIAzBLA9qCHcaHfwlPGDJNQhS43GmvOnpI21Nphy/YecNWXeHAWMXnDS119QMGSBA9 X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCViPxjnBL2H6F3MCrbL8GLxdqJeeijL85Om+0Qap9oVom6hfi2pESBqPwBGAYQnA== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13319 Michael Casadevall writes: > On 03/13/2017 09:03 PM, RS Wood wrote: > least Motif tends to fit in with Thunderbird and Firefox. I might give > it a go when I nuke my desktop back to the stone age as I suspect it's > simply Ubuntu/Debian's version of WM is screwy. I'm hoping for > something less screwy under Gentoo, though I'm semi-debating just > hopping on the FreeBSD train. Michael I don't see how changing operating systems gains you much of anything at all. A windowmanager on BSD is likely to be no different than the same windowmanager on a Linux distro, with the exception of defaults and a few installation choices (I used to find kubuntu to work poorly, while opensuse did a better job of packaging and pre-configuring KDE).