Don't be so negative. There are a lot of active threads in this Forum, and a lot of very useful ones. This one might not be brilliant, but it lets people talk about things they like, which is kind of nice and positive and innocuous in the great scheme of things and the universe. Much better than watching TikTok or binging on Netflix.soon only they will remain
Never said they were useless, just something that a bit of forum searching would give a good starting point.See? Something positive came out of this thread, anyway.
"There can be only one"soon only they will remain
I insist because I'm curious and maybe you missed I asked before. What made your mind to be blown?
Simplicity.
I'm not trying to answer for rbranco but CDE is probably a lot lighter on resource usage than other things like KDE/Gnome. XLibre is cleaning up Xorg and trying to move it to the next gen.
It brings back very nice memories of the Sun Ultra 45 workstations we had at the university. Those UltraSPARC were 64-bits and it took some time for Linux to catch up in this particular area. CDE was the peak GUI experience for me and the color palette is very nice.
I've known CDE for decades, I used it professionally on Solaris, HP-UX and Tru64. I stopped using it about 20 years ago but this forum helped me getting back to it.
I had to look up for most technical words to understand what you are talking about. It happens often to me in this forum, which makes me realize how little I know (it's a humbling experience that lasts only an instant—I forget it right away and I back at my usual state of believing I know a lot about everything).
In my case, I don't use any software that works only on Windows, so I don't need to dual boot anymore (I still can, because I have Windows 11 and Siduction Linux also installed, but I just don't do it anymore). As for the autohotkey script that I still use on Windows 11, it's more practical to execute it in a VM because that way I can do other stuff on the FreeBSD host at the same time, i.e., a VM is integrated, while dual booting is not.
you beat me by a couple days for running Plasma 6 with Wayland on 15-RELEASE. Do you use packages or do you compile from scratch? I've used FreeBSD as my daily driver for a while, but unable to completely ditch Windows - some things like my awesome old Epson Perfection v21 scanner (incompatible with SANE, unfortunately) Teams and TurboTax only work there, so I kinda have to keep an old machine around for that. Other than that, anything I wanna do - it's easier to accomplish in FreeBSD anyway, the feature parity is there, and no silly license restrictions to worry about, only whether my metal is powerful enough.
At least the last time I tried, Teams worked fine in Chromium on FreeBSD.
This is a great question, and reminds me I should refocus my introduction around that here:
github.com
Yes. You can see an early preview in GhostBSD that was based around XFCE window manager, XFCE panel, and GNUstep. The native GNUstep replacements for Window Manager, and global menu server are shaping up. There is a gershwin-build repo in the GitHub above that can be used to try it from sources as well to see the more unstable work in progress. It takes only a few minutes to build the entire thing even on a low spec system like a VM with 4GB memory and 1-2 cores compared to rust which takes hours and otherwise crashes my 28 core 32GB ram workstation without OOM tuning, large swap and TMPFS workarounds. With the all native components it is about a 30MB install in a self contained /System (dataset, or folder) which includes the workspace, terminal, text editor, system preferences, window manager for x11 apps, global menu server for GNUstep native and x11 apps. Nothing outside of the /System is touched. Alright I'll stop promoting. Thanks for the questions.
