Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

[Michal Varga]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:43 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS.

Could you support your claim with some examples, please?


> Desktop support is lacking when compared to the other major OSes
> (Windows, Mac and Linux).

Here too. How is "desktop support" on FreeBSD lacking?


> You can make it 
> work, if you want to, but that's not what its primary function is.

Where can I find some detailed information about what is FreeBSD's
"primary funtion" and what does that even mean in the first place?


> If you want a user friendly desktop OS, FreeBSD is probably not your best 
> choice.

Why? How is KDE, Gnome, XFCE or some potential other desktop environment
different from the literally exactly same one running on, say, Linux?

m.



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