Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:15:30 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint? Message-ID: <AANLkTinEky6ugH7BLjn2zvc0KN-VicUZ9XVFTwtvLKsA@mail.gmail.com>
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I was wondering if there were any technical reasons why a FreeBSD desktop could not be hand-tweaked to be as nice as a Linux Mint 10 desktop. I only rarely use Linux Mint 10, but it's desktop and webrowsing seem to be about perfect (albeit green). The Gnome UI is very smooth to interact with, and website fonts in Firefox look better than on Windows. When I install gnome2 and firefox via pkg_add, everything works, but it is not as glassy smooth as LM10. I think the PC-BSD people are working on a Gnome-version, so I could wait and see what they put together. I was just curious if there was any technical reason why this could be done. I assume if they both use xorg, then it is possible.
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