From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 06:26:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A399106566C for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:26:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877731647C0; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D917B7B.1020106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:26:03 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110319 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Hsu References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:26:15 -0000 On 03/28/2011 22:32, Jason Hsu wrote: > I've been trying to switch from Linux to BSD for my everyday computing (email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), but I couldn't get things to work properly. I've been so spoiled by the quickness and user-friendliness of antiX/Swift Linux and Puppy Linux for so long. I have a backlog of stuff to do, so I'm sticking to Linux for now as my main OS. However, I might try BSD in VirtualBox and on my laptop. > > Are there any good tutorials for using BSD on the desktop? Simple answer, if your only goal is to have a Unix-like desktop, you're better off sticking with Linux. FreeBSD is not really focused on desktop use, whereas a lot of the Linux distributions are, and if you're happy with the ones you are using there is no good reason to switch. If you want to use FreeBSD as a desktop because you have a desire to learn FreeBSD, your best bet is visit the home page at http://www.FreeBSD.org/, look under Documentation, and start reading the Handbook. hope this helps, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/