… questions being asked on Stack Overflow …
Questions specifically about FreeBSD?
… a good integrated way to handle user mounts for removable media. But, coincidentally, I never got that to work properly with KDE either, although it should be possible …
It seems to
just work nowadays, for most things, in/with KDE. If it
seems to – without requiring me to think about it or RTFM – then it probably
does work
I should add that I use FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT. YMMV, your mileage may vary.
… dung heap of reddit (a place I NEVER go to) …
I post much more often to Reddit than here because there's
no place for -CURRENT here. Nowhere around here.
I should retract my mention of using FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT. My mileage varies, pleasantly so, and readers here might never know of such pleasures.
"Being nice" ruins orderliness. …
Nice and orderly (the combination) was a reason for me to love Stack Exchange (not Stack Overflow in particular) for a very long time.
A jaw-dropping lack of niceties drove me away – and quickly. I was away in an
instant. Hypocrisy; someone who thought himself above the rules.
It tickles me that
years after almost completely abandoning Stack Exchange, I'm still amongst the top two percent (whatever that means) at
https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/8546/graham-perrin
For clarity: the lack of niceties was nowhere near Ask Different.
if one gets aggravated by newcomer questions, one can just ignore them. (I'm talking about this forum), …
Whilst I'm not here often enough to be aware of newcomer questions … generally:
+1
As an aside, I think how the OpenBSD reddit community deals with these ideas of "improving user-friendlyness" is quite effective:
Reddit: r/openbsd/comments/lq4dd7/cinnamon_on_openbsd/
It does encourage users to get involved rather than "leave it to the developers". I actually find this to be more productive than directly saying no, or having some quiet porting hidden behind the scenes.
+1 to encouragement, however the first (and highest-voted) answer there was, essentially, "Go ahead: port it" with no consideration of skill levels. A popular answer, but it was quite thoughtless, and honestly (not mean-mindedly) the up-voters were similarly thoughtless.
From a glance at
https://old.reddit.com/user/shawn_blackk it should have been
obvious that the person is
not a porter of desktop environments.
To also jump on that train - I've always had a sympathy for
tramps,
and that's where this term roots off IIRC - I hereby declare (please add to public wisdom):
subcommandante Mjölnir is neither a wizzard and far from becoming a guru (
Walter von Enferndt).
I'd also welcome if all other
Shmocks know what they don't know and don't play the wise guy.
EDIT
tramp does
not root off
"to jump on a train" (that's literally what they did in the US @early 19xy), but from the old-german
"trampen". Wieder was gelerndt.
Can you help me with the etymology? I'd like to learn, but Google Translate is not helping in this case (of course it's not, Graham).
helloSystem definitely had something to do with all the "Year of the FreeBSD Desktop" mantra on the interwebz lately. The developer having some status in the Linux Crowd; it's an interesting addition to the FreeBSD community. But if this project ends up bringing in more OE driver and third party developer support, hallelujah.
+1 to bringing more goodness to FreeBSD.
On the downside, my recent concerns include the
removal of support for pkg update
and
pkg upgrade
when it would have been more user-friendly to simply lock just one package.
Incidentally: if pkg-installed software is limited to a jail, does
jailing not limit that software's ability to achieve some things?
… Another example: FuryBSD claimed to be native FreeBSD under the hood. IIUC there was an issue that it's forum was attacked, …
Att… what?
Clearly, I'm out of the loop. I knew that FuryBSD came then went, I know not much more than that.
In a different life, I might have involved myself in the project … in real life (with COVID-19 and other issues), my mind was elsewhere for a few months.