From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 01:15:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9921065693 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:15:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f44.google.com (mail-bw0-f44.google.com [209.85.214.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5355D8FC19 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so1889615bwz.17 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:15:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=BdYzlk17WPGFmthJshYXtFsIN/Z6Y4WncuGmzuaPmnU=; b=ALyfkR9knaztwfknqtsYdpX8IlJW08TqP/+g7lYU9ytH9vhPi+IrM9YrhiaCMYpAjw aCMyC69tMGxSZEVK7fDdSwVlbOV+Fzk3uzBEje3ilZcfrZZf9YPJlpF3utzp5eYrD/3K fzCF512p4OdG/g8VdIc+SwdX837yOhNjUHOyo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ZGVnJn84n7K2hV9qoRrUyWxGtxOFmDjAIhYd32wzqPjPvyNAPFrRoUMu6xN2HLdTqC 5jTDllLIlG4ROsN3JiAddBOxkvDic3exdj/zZ4elpzIhHxOM4hJyBImktIw5tZaOhmoH DzCrKBI4eZcGb0pw+ehns26mtVcuiGS0dgYmU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.64.139 with SMTP id e11mr754894bki.97.1298250930103; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.73.213 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:15:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:15:30 -0500 Message-ID: From: Xn Nooby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint? 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: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:15:31 -0000 I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect (albeit green). The Gnome UI is very smooth to interact with, and website fonts in Firefox look better than on Windows. When I install gnome2 and firefox via pkg_add, everything works, but it is not as glassy smooth as LM10. I think the PC-BSD people are working on a Gnome-version, so I could wait and see what they put together. I was just curious if there was any technical reason why this could be done. I assume if they both use xorg, then it is possible.