Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:21:05 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Wesley <wesley@freenetmail.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <DB1E4259-AEB7-4336-938E-991DE0A89426@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <7dd4776b-4326-fa9c-cd2f-2b59ca4e8e50@freenetMail.de> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <20200608051434.ca70e5c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <f1613992-e3a4-6bb0-48ea-f729b758b315@freenetMail.de> <20200608050415.GA92414@geeks.org> <C56715D3-73B6-472D-A4F7-93125CBD1EFC@kicp.uchicago.edu> <7dd4776b-4326-fa9c-cd2f-2b59ca4e8e50@freenetMail.de>
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> On Jun 8, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Wesley <wesley@freenetmail.de> wrote: >=20 > May I ask a question, is it possible for freeBSD community to develop = a nice GUI like Mac OSX? current opensource desktop like KDE is not = behaving as well as OSX in my opinion. >=20 This nice GUI like MacOS=E2=80=99s is not necessarily nice in = everybody=E2=80=99s opinion. I for one would prefer Mate Desktop. There = are several different DEs (Desktop Environments) which I may not like as = I didn=E2=80=99t blend into iPad generation, but that may be considered = quite comparable to MacOS=E2=80=99s one. Still, compared to MS Widows = MacOS's is nicer (my subjective opinion), yet still there is one thing = about both of them: you can not choose =E2=80=9Cdock area=E2=80=9D on = left, on right (speaking about MS Windows), and you can not remove Apple = top bar (=E2=80=9Ctop is reserved for mighty Apple=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D). = So, Xwindow based DEs cover much wider spectrum of tastes IMHO.=20 But if there is something specific you are after, you can try to = describe it, and I bet with so many Experts on this list, you can hear = viable advise. Valeri > Thanks. >=20 > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> MacOS departs farther and farther away from BSD=E2=80=A6 so some time = ago I scratched MacOS from my list of =E2=80=9CUNIXes=E2=80=9D. = Administering server on MacOS became unbearable for me. I still tell all = Mac laptop owners: the beauty of MacOS is that you have nice GUI, and = UNIX under the hood. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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