From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 15:23:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCA116A4DD for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:23:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: from smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.178.232.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A04143D49 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:23:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: (qmail 10384 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2006 15:23:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gem-wbe25.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.189.228) by smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net with SMTP; 26 Jul 2006 15:23:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 5848 invoked by uid 99); 26 Jul 2006 15:23:33 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:23:33 -0700 From: Joshua Lewis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> User-Agent: Web-Based Email 4.3.16 X-Originating-IP: 65.193.202.231 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Replacing windows XP at home. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:23:35 -0000 I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports collection and there is no way I will be able to find the time to read them all and get any kind of good idea on what each one does. I am hoping a few people form the list could e-mail me what they like and for what reason. I want something lean and fast but I want to have my cake and eat it to because I do want something that is not strait up ugly and is functional. KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick. Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up bloating my system any ways right? Thanks for any and all suggestions. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis