From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 21:03:40 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 F3EBD16A4DA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:03:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7C743D46 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:03:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so502273uge for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:03:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sZcBDEy+zdfCIz9LoACvrEQA1ND/HqaFQCDEkLZLQMCtHWq+XAGXO7OPW82JhsLKyfvT+utrbDqwK+SVmuTrMz997+xOCwGDF6jyAS+dKo9z4jKGDnYKjMcaaTDA4ttEJM/oJJ/xgdcs7eUdCCX8sWclBB98pwg5M1eB5Ss51Mc= Received: by 10.78.139.5 with SMTP id m5mr286731hud; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:03:37 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Joshua Lewis" In-Reply-To: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:03:40 -0000 On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis wrote: > > 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. > > I use KDE, a large part of the reason is the apps. Opera, Amarok, K3B, Qalculate, Quanta Plus, Koffice 1.5, Kaffeine, Konsole, Kate/Kdevelop, KPatience. I could keep going... anyways... I came to KDE in a round about way, my general path looks something like this: Apple IIgs --> DOS/Win3.x/Win9x/WinNT --> RadHat 5 --> SuSE --> Win2k --> Linux --> Gnome/FreeBSD 4.7 --> XFCE/FreeBSD --> KDE/FreeBSD 5.3+/6.x. I should also add that I regularly use Mac OS X by choice at work. I think the best suggestion I can offer you is to try everything. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/