From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 15:31:12 2002 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 B81AE37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20708.mail.yahoo.com (web20708.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EFBE43E88 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edlyu@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020725223109.99142.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.124.70.190] by web20708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:31:09 PDT Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:31:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Yu Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop To: MET Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <1027632050.283.80.camel@trsealslptp1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can usually find substitutes for your applications on Windows. The only thing you would really miss is: 1. Outlook's scheduling support. (I know Evolution but it won't work with other people's Outlook if you don't buy the Connector from Ximian). 2. Games. (Yes, we have games but the popular games like Warcraft 3, etc. won't run) 3. Visual Studio. (If you like to program in this way.) 4. Things like right click to change resolution and wizards to help setup things, and various other small things. But once you get the hang of it, you will stick with FreeBSD, trust me. I run fluxbox (You should run KDE 3.0 or Gnome 2.0 if you are used to Windows) as my window manager. The three applications I use most often are Konsole, Evolution (for email), and Galeon (for web browsing). You can find substitutes for AIM (I know there is one because I used it before, not Jabber, sorry I don't remember the name) and Yahoo IM has FreeBSD version. -ed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message