Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 06:05:03 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <20200609060503.00005548@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <DB1E4259-AEB7-4336-938E-991DE0A89426@kicp.uchicago.edu> 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> <DB1E4259-AEB7-4336-938E-991DE0A89426@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 21:21:05 -0500, Valeri Galtsev commented: >> On Jun 8, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Wesley <wesley@freenetmail.de> wrote: >> >> 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. > >This nice GUI like MacOS’s is not necessarily nice in everybody’s >opinion. I for one would prefer Mate Desktop. There are several >different DEs (Desktop Environments) which I may not like as I didn’t >blend into iPad generation, but that may be considered quite >comparable to MacOS’s 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 “dock area” on left, on right (speaking >about MS Windows), and you can not remove Apple top bar (“top is >reserved for mighty Apple…”). So, Xwindow based DEs cover much wider >spectrum of tastes IMHO. > >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. >> >> Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> MacOS departs farther and farther away from BSD… so some time ago I >>> scratched MacOS from my list of “UNIXes”. 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. Valeri, are you sure about that 'docking on left' statement. I have read several articles on exactly how to do it in Win 10. I am not sure about older versions though. -- Jerry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEIQb/tTwl6I1ueEVtOHMGOIfexWQFAl7fXtEACgkQOHMGOIfe xWQwkQgAqd7PdYsWXULgWmRLUzL6DlcDpagB+OuoZe+fIsiP5YCcZnaM2Cflrnj7 8eStaYJlOuiE3H27cSeYEIz6955a2G8T4H8NJHlyokdgFaljyaychPwsKk1zeGW0 2CUEhd4kM54kgcMulOTjP+NmNJcCS+wmR3zkywgvpbuGAX12GqY9DjlL9BIpo6IC Kffy9loBk2ifBbXxK6EGtHHM7mgVeQfrxOc/6B8GvkF24p6gxyPrcSHx1M8DupkE 3tEazqggrM7V5KqGE/dSB2yq/leBrMRufyxfyWTRrCtzSOvvIVHuw4+zlp2kvdlW 87Xty0ndfjDdY6e4NsC8eD+AgakXtw== =Z/AF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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