Do you use FreeBSD on metal as your daily driver? Which version? What DE or WM do you use? Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually?

[AlfredoLlaquet]

soon only they will remain

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.

 

[mer]

See? Something positive came out of this thread, anyway.

Never said they were useless, just something that a bit of forum searching would give a good starting point.

soon only they will remain

"There can be only one"

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

that a bit of forum searching would give a good starting point.

You are right about that. I confess I didn't do it because I also enjoy the "rush" of starting a thread that gets engagement. It's true. You got me. It's a harmless kink, though.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

I recently tried CDE with XLibre and it blew my mind

I insist because I'm curious and maybe you missed I asked before. What made your mind to be blown?

 

[T-Aoki]

How does MATE benefit from Compiz?

Simplicity.
I'm using compiz to get its excellent Mag plugin working in conjunction with Mate.

 

[mer]

I insist because I'm curious and maybe you missed I asked before. What made your mind to be blown?

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.
So combined, likely a little faster, little lighter than other combinations.

There is a whole thread on CDE here:

Other Thread 'CDE Users Unite!'

May 12, 2022

Does anyone use CDE as their daily driver here? If so, why?

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[rbranco]

I insist because I'm curious and maybe you missed I asked before. What made your mind to be blown?

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 have to allocate some time to manually configure it. I'm not used to do this since a very long time.

 

[fmc000]

I know almost nothing about CDE. What do you like about it? I'm curious.

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.

What do I like about it? First of all it makes me feel a couple decades younger, and this is not bad at all. Secondly, it's lean, fast and stable. It's not as polished and feature rich as gnome or KDE are but it's good enough for me.