Other omfreebdy - omarchy like on FreeBSD

is like using their underwear or their toothbrush
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But if say, you have a desktop or even a window manager, that you want to get running quickly, you might grab someone else's dotfiles, even as a stopgap till you figure out the config yourself.
Using proven working config files is sometimes the only documentation available to help you achieve the result required.
 
Using proven working config files is sometimes the only documentation available to help you achieve the result required.
Spot on.
If everyone was inventing fire from scratch (literally) we would still be shivering in caves.
Cerebral narcissism is major time&energy waster.
 
I think things like omarchy [which really is just AI harness + DHH producs + arch (arguably the least secure linux os) + dotfiles] are angled toward getting users to move away from windows or mac - which seems pretty reasonable - tier off the walled garden mezzanine and into the freeworld - sure good stuff - but practically I don't see or know anyone who does or has used it as their driver - test it, sure - but keep using it? nobody - It's a great introduction set of dotfiles to gain a linux convert - I don't think BSD needs the same thing.

If you are an individual looking at dropping an OS and trying to get into something different - you'd stumble on a BSD only as a "have you heard of this" - the people who make the move to a BSD as a daily, in my opinion have a desire to know and own and control their machine - that desire translates into some level of willingness to learn and configure things for yourself - as we see on these forums. always learning.

"A Beautiful Desktop Environment for FreeBSD" - sounds like XFCE or Sway

I remember watching an interview with the head of Rockstar Games - he said "You can make a clone of GTA and it can be awesome, but it still won't be GTA - things which people love, and really enjoy - are always inherently unexpected" (or sosmethign like that I can't remember exactly what he said)

Omarchy isn't unexpected, and copying Omarchy is highly expected - people like themes other people create

what I like about a BSD, espescially freeBSD (my laptop daily driver) - It's not trying to be like Linux, but it works well with a lot of what Linux has

Does the Tree seek to become an Apple or the Apple longs to grow into a Tree?

If freeBSD was considered to have an official desktop experience - I would think that's XFCE
 
The last I read FreeBSD was trying to bundle KDE in its dvd1 ISO images? I've always liked XFCE a lot but even if KDE is not actually the official I think it would be the actual more official if that plan is followed?
 
posting in defense of the guy who posts pro ethnic cleansing rhetoric on his blog sure is a thing you can do, i guess. has anyone considered that his opinions suck?
 
The last I read FreeBSD was trying to bundle KDE in its dvd1 ISO images? I've always liked XFCE a lot but even if KDE is not actually the official I think it would be the actual more official if that plan is followed?
I guess you have a point there - I mean if it were to work as well as XFCE then for sure I'd say KDE would be the official -but until we get there I just think there really is not a DE that "just works" for FreeBSD like XFCE does

I used XFCE for about a day; I personally don't really like it - Definitely prefer KDE - but I'd be lying to myself if I didn't admit just how well it's put together

albeit - I use a customised fork of a tiling/stacking compositor and my own sidebar and shizzle so all I know is if everyone who has done similar showed off their setup - we'd see omarchy is not unique and kinda what people have just done solodolo for 30 odd years as a hobby
 
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