Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:10:22 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, dteske@freebsd.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vivPPbbjaC36zQiWwqPqhON_3NbAydwBeiehYsjkPLHg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140401195006.GA1368@tiny-r255948> References: <CAF6rxgkeBozvfV-L0%2BrFZ6fWRn0=Gi3BNq1kPL=-HTq0TD6MkQ@mail.gmail.com> <A70900DF-4BAA-427F-8731-01211FFD1887@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20140401094044.GX44074@e-new.0x20.net> <083e01cf4db9$f8f4e040$eadea0c0$@FreeBSD.org> <20140401174302.GU44074@e-new.0x20.net> <20140401195006.GA1368@tiny-r255948>
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=C3=ADa Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 07:43:02PM +0200, Lars Engels > escribi=C3=B3: > > > > > > > That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on t= he > > > > > > desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the > > > [snip] > > > > > > > I'm a happy FreeBSD desktop user since 4.7. There are some edges, > but I > > > > really like that I can can create a desktop the way _I_ want it and > my mail > > > > client even allows me to break lines at 80 chars. Eat that, Apple > Mail! ;-) > > > > > > What e-mail client do you use? Evolution? > > > > No, mutt, with vim as mail composer. :) > > +1 > > matthias > > (FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and sending this from an EeePC 900, > netbook, UMTS connected, KDE4 desktop, sound, webcam, vim, mutt, > sendmail, ...) > FreeBSD desktop since 3.3 (makes me a newbie!) I really dislike pulseaudio and have managed to live without it. Firefox works fine without it. Unfortunately they dropped OSS support a while go, so I now must use alsa, but it works well and without the pain of dealing with pulseaudio, a solution in search of a problem it I ever saw one. Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is a bit ugly,but I only had to check the available PINs (ugly, ugly) and set up stuff once. It just works. If you want my example set-up, I can post it somewhere or you can look in the archives for it as I have posted it in the past. I used exmh with emacs for years, but no when work stopped allowing private SMTP systems, I switched to Thunderbird. Not great, but satisfactory. I must use a bit of emulation but it works. (E.g. Flash, alsa) I can run what I need and have been happy to avoid the issues Windows users have to deal with (Can you day Windows 8 or Metro?) Power is an issue and I find the current defaults suck. Read mav's article on the subject on the wiki. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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