Desktop usage

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hruodr

Desktop usage means here:

1) Window Managers (Gnome, KDE, etc.)
2) Display Servers (X11, Wayland)
3) Mobile Computing
4) Multimeda/Gaming

Short: either Desktop for the sake of Desktop, Multimedia, or Games.

I like to speak about desktop, I sit and see the whole day my desk. They are so exciting!
Some multimedia and gaming is also not bad.

But what about using the home and work computer for something else?
 
grahamperrin said:
Do you mean, non-desktop usage?
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Is it really that a desktop? Are all people here sitting and rejoicing of how exciting is their desktop environment, the eternal theme? Do they have computers for that?!

In principle X11, DEs, multimedia and games belong to ports. Mobile computing to installation, hardware, etc.

Why are these themes more important than text processing, that has no special place?
More important than databases, that are a continuous theme since there are computers?
More important than calculators, software for numerical calculation? Than software
for design, for CAD, or just for painting?

Perhaps /usr/ports could give an idea for the structure of the forums.
 
hruodr said:
Why are these themes more important than text processing, that has no special place?
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A subforum with one or two threads in it doesn't look good either. Creating subforums makes sense when you get a lot of posts about a subject that drowns out the other subjects in that (sub)forum. That's how the "Multimedia/Gaming" subforum came to be. There were a lot of posts with that subject that drowned out the others posts in Window Managers/Display Servers/General. So we created that subforum and moved a bunch of threads out of the way. IF there are a lot of posts dealing with text processors then we might actually create a specific subforum for it. But so far this has been quite unnecessary.
 
SirDice said:
A subforum with one or two threads in it doesn't look good either.
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Yes, but subforums also invite people to discuss on the theme.
Perhaps is that also part of the reason of the inflation of Desktop discussion.
Important is only to install X11, a DE, there is really not much to speak about.
The discussion thread:

forums.freebsd.org

List your suite of desktop apps!

The great thing about being a user of FreeBSD (or other FOSS operating systems) is that we have so many desktop applications. Not everyone uses the same ones and there's endless combinations, so in this thread tell us what desktop apps you use. A desktop application can be something like your...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

Was not so bad. It shows that people indeed use the computer for something else
than rejoicing about their desk surface. It was only not very specific.
 
hruodr said:
Yes, but subforums also invite people to discuss on the theme.
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A mostly empty subforum isn't really inviting though. You also don't get scolded or have it removed for posting a question about text processors in General. You can post wherever you want, we just move it if it's in the "wrong" subforum.
 
Perhaps would be an interesting feature of the forum software to have the possibility of
tagging, doing some statistics with the tags, be able to automatically restructure with that info.
 
hruodr said:
… the possibility of tagging, …
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The feature already exists, but few people will take the time.

<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/>

hruodr said:
… text processing, … databases … design, for CAD, or just for painting …?
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<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/text/>

<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/database/> | <https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/databases/>

<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/design/>

<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/cad/>

<https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/painting/>

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