Can't agree with quite a bit of what he's saying, especially with the "no third-party code and can never be broken because of those" when he talks about using FreeBSD on a desktop computer. The...
Can't agree with quite a bit of what he's saying, especially with the "no third-party code and can never be broken because of those" when he talks about using FreeBSD on a desktop computer.
The use-case ecessitates a DE like GNOME, which has historically been adopting exclusively systemd interfaces, which the *BSDs do not support, potentially making it unusable as a desktop computer.
Have you used FreeBSD? It's absolutely possible to install relatively modern GNOME on it. The BSDs share work with systemd-averse Linux distros (e.g. Gentoo/Funtoo/Devuan) here.
The use-case ecessitates a DE like GNOME, which has historically been adopting exclusively systemd interfaces, which the *BSDs do not support, potentially making it unusable as a desktop computer.
Have you used FreeBSD? It's absolutely possible to install relatively modern GNOME on it. The BSDs share work with systemd-averse Linux distros (e.g. Gentoo/Funtoo/Devuan) here.
You install it just like you do anything else on FreeBSD. It's no different from any other package. I'm not sure what you're getting at here, it sounds like you're not really aware of how FreeBSD...
it's not without effort
You install it just like you do anything else on FreeBSD. It's no different from any other package. I'm not sure what you're getting at here, it sounds like you're not really aware of how FreeBSD works.
Can't agree with quite a bit of what he's saying, especially with the "no third-party code and can never be broken because of those" when he talks about using FreeBSD on a desktop computer.
The use-case ecessitates a DE like GNOME, which has historically been adopting exclusively systemd interfaces, which the *BSDs do not support, potentially making it unusable as a desktop computer.
Have you used FreeBSD? It's absolutely possible to install relatively modern GNOME on it. The BSDs share work with systemd-averse Linux distros (e.g. Gentoo/Funtoo/Devuan) here.
I'm not arguing that it's not possible, I'm saying it's not without effort, like you're saying.
You install it just like you do anything else on FreeBSD. It's no different from any other package. I'm not sure what you're getting at here, it sounds like you're not really aware of how FreeBSD works.
I think he's referring to effort on the part of the downstream developers maintaining the patches, not the end users.