A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by floatboth on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:21AM (#12372711)

Well, everyone has different "productivity" needs. I'm productive when everything is customized for, uh, productivity. When my config files aren't overwritten by package managers and the settings aren't replaced at runtime by some-settings-daemon that I never wanted.

You must be that mythical Hacker News commenter who's proud of using default settings everywhere and not customizing anything :D

Anyway, setting up any BSD, or Arch, or even Gentoo doesn't really take "way too much time", come on.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by karma_vaccum123 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:35AM (#12372765)

Agreed. And FreeBSD's installer has been "next, next, next" as you say, since the 90s.

Our receptionist installed it herself on both her work and home computers in 1997. Next, next, next, done.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by groovy2shoes on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:05PM (#12383803)

Arch used to have an installer like that, but they dumped it in favor of the current boot-into-heavily-customized-live-environment-that's-nothing-like-the-default-installation-and-install-pseudo-manually-by-running-these-shell-scripts-in-the-proper-order-and-hopefully-you-memorized-the-handbook “installer”. I can't prove it, but I suspect they did that sheerly out of elitism, to keep the newbs out.

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