To start with, sorry for the complete noobie questions. I have been using Ubuntu for a while now and for the most part, been pretty happy with it. I upgraded recently and was switched to Unity. To keep it short, I hate Unity. I switched to XFCE. I am much happier with that but I have come across some of the screenshots in this forum and am really interested in learning more about FreeBSD.
I downloaded and installed FreeBSD as a virtual machine using VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. I would really like to try and setup a system like Daisuke Aramaki has in the link above. So, I have a few questions.
If someone could walk a new guy through FreeBSD so I could enjoy it just as much, that would be greatly appreciated!
I downloaded and installed FreeBSD as a virtual machine using VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. I would really like to try and setup a system like Daisuke Aramaki has in the link above. So, I have a few questions.
- Do I need to use something like Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc. or can I use Xmonad?
- Do I need to install Xorg? I was reading through the handbook last night and tried to install it but it took hours to build and eventually stopped with an error. I feel like I did something wrong.
- How do I get to a desktop environment? I just have the command line. I think this is related to my second question. By default, a desktop environment isn't installed? I remember installing X years ago on a different machine.
If someone could walk a new guy through FreeBSD so I could enjoy it just as much, that would be greatly appreciated!