KDE in BSD. Any BSD fans out there tried it?

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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

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

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

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

Another OpenBSD fan here. I've been using it for 25 years.

My OpenBSD computers don't usually need any kind of graphical user interface.

On my SuSE Linux workstation, I have xfce which works fine for me. Second place on my workstation is cinnamon.

But I have no need for either or those on my OpenBSD computers. Typically, if I do have some kind of graphical user interface on them, I use Windowmaker.

I used Windowmaker in Debian from about 1998 to 2001. It's astounding that you still use it in 2025, and that it's still alive and maintained

I used FreeBSD for years. The only reason that I'm using Linux now is because I can't find an equivalent to Backblaze or Crashplan that allows backups for a price I can afford otherwise. When we get closer to the end of support on Win 10, I might just pickup a used computer and run Linux on that as a NAS and have my backup software running primarily on that though.

I haven't personally used KDE in rather a long time. I don't think that GNOME functions at this point due to certain stupid decisions being made over in Linux-land, but it used to be the go to for newer users. One of the nice things about the BSDs is that you generally have a bunch of choice over what you use, from bare bones window managers to more fully featured desktop environments.

Personally, I've been trying out tiling window managers in a VM and with what a headache IDEs in Linux are, I'll probably start using that for doing my development work.