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I ("feel like" I) could almost hear marbles running around in his head as he spoke (I hope I just didn't get his humor).
For example: "BSD's package manger is hard to remember and I'm not sure what it stands for but it's 'p' 'k' 'g' so let's go ahead and type that...." <- that's a joke, right?

Seems like a lot of setup. For example, I don't think I have ever installed a font. Is that normal? Do most people actually install that much stuff (I've never even heard of most of what he was installing)?

msplsh said:
2027? Saving myself a click...
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^^ made me laugh.
 
😂 first thought is Footloose the movie 1984. No third party binaries in /usr/bin. Also no dancing.

Is this written somewhere in the handbook. I need to check 👀

*loading brief Google search* - I found Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports. Nothing for stern lecturing of the young crowd about separation of base system and add-ons
docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org
 
JohnK said:
Seems like a lot of setup. For example, I don't think I have ever installed a font. Is that normal? Do most people actually install that much stuff (I've never even heard of most of what he was installing)?
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Yes. This is how programming is today with the younger versions of the the greybeards in the community.

I will say for FreeBSD I keep it minimal. On other operating systems it depends what I am working on. But I’ve also never tested the computing limits of FreeBSD except for with Python
 
I guess, if the objective was to demonstrate how FreeBSD can be a "replacement for Linux" then I guess all the extra stuff installed was worth it to demonstrate versatility (however, the video could have been about 15 minutes shorter without it :) ).
 
I think the real point of that video is the author created a WM in rust, ported it to FreeBSD, and then made a video showing how easy it was to set up. I think the video succeeds in that purpose.
 
JohnK said:
Seems like a lot of setup. For example, I don't think I have ever installed a font. Is that normal? Do most people actually install that much stuff (I've never even heard of most of what he was installing)?
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Some fonts are easier on the eyes. For me, preinstalled fonts (with xorg) are not. Hack Font Mono and Terminus are great for me.
Some people use computers as is, some other prefer to adapt it to their preferences. As a long time (20 years +) user of tiling wm, i can say that i'm more productive with my own config and not productive with stacking wm. But no other one can use my computer ;)
My desktop env is very limited and usable with keyboard shortcut made by/for me. Minimal muscle memory use.

Today many linux distro (macOS and Windows too) come with heavy configured desktop by default. In the video the guy demonstrate that it's not hard to do the same with FreeBSD which is barebone by default.
 
rcbsdpge said:
*loading brief Google search* - I found Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports. Nothing for stern lecturing of the young crowd about separation of base system and add-ons
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Doesn't need to be mentioned there, ports and packages install in LOCALBASE (which is /usr/local/) 'automagically'.
 
I think the young fella gave a fair tutorial. Some I was kind of huh but overall fair. Bashing Linux in the default thumbnail is kind of mean no pun intended
 
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