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CapedOwl
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24 Jun 2025, 7:09 pm

Hello,
I'm a Debian Linux person myself, and at present I'm enjoying the KDE desktop in trixie. I've always sort of dismissed the BSD world, because I've been unsatisfied with the desktop experience, which they seem to sort of disdain as not being all that important.

Lately, the BSD people are trying to get KDE working in BSD. Anyone out there tried this? What sort of bugginess is there?

https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/114561643212588615


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25 Jun 2025, 4:41 am

I don't use KDE, but my general experience with DEs is they suck on *BSD, ye'd better off with making something up with WM instead.
NetBSD comes with pretty neat pre-configured CTWM and for OpenBSD there's a minimal DE project called BareGUI. I haven't tried it (neither used OpenBSD really), but it looks cool


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27 Jun 2025, 4:53 am

Thanks for the post CapedOwl,

I personally love OpenBSD deeply. The bottom up structure and emphasis on strongly integrated security make's it for my quirky mind a fun place to be in.

This said, The way I integrate BSD into my personal or professional services is always as a backend, so when interacting with it I always go console mode full on :) I have heard of the bareGUI project and will give it a go later today.

I'll keep you posted.

kind regards,
Kada



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27 Jun 2025, 10:08 am

I use the command line a lot myself, but just windowed. I use tmux a lot on a few VPS' I rent


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