[TUHS] FreeBSD kernel not OK? (was: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?)

[Michael Huff]

[reply is below, as top-posting is for godless heathens]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 2:53 PM John Floren via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

>
> Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> writes:
> [snip]
> > restore. GUI? KDE and Xfce work... not my faves, but better than Gnome
> > for my taste. My only gripe with it is that I run a huge number of
> [snip]
>
> Ok so I've always been confused by how often I see this come
> up... don't FreeBSD, and Debian, and Ubuntu, and Redhat, and OpenBSD,
> etc. all ship a huge variety of window managers and desktop environments
> right there in the package manager? I guess I haven't run Gnome in 15
> years but everything else I ever want (fvwm, xfce, stumpwm, twm, KDE) is
> always available with a quick install command.
>
> I remember for a long time people would talk about how they were going
> to install Xubuntu or Kubuntu or Lubuntu because they didn't like the
> Gnome interface on Ubuntu... blow away your whole root partition rather
> than run "apt-get install kde"?
>
> john
>

I thought most desktops (specifically Xfce, GNOME, KDE) required Wayland
and SystemD these days?  Wouldn't that rule out *BSD?
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