Replacing windows XP at home.

[jan gestre]

On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis at familyfunzone.net> wrote:
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>    I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand
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>    I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished
>    installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window
>    manager.
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>    There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports
>    collection and there is no way I will be able to find the time to read
>    them all and get any kind of good idea on what each one does.
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>    I am hoping a few people form the list could e-mail me what they like
>    and for what reason.
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>    I want something lean and fast but I want to have my cake and eat it
>    to because I do want something that is not strait up ugly and is
>    functional.
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>    KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also
>    been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have
>    looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick.
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>    Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I
>    start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing
>    something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up
>    bloating my system any ways right?
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> gnome and kde are both bloated, why not xfce or fluxbox, they are both
> lean and fast.
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