From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 19 13:12:10 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F889C7D043 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:12:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftp51246-2575596@sh4-5.1blu.de) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [178.254.11.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2AF5D7EBAB for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:12:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftp51246-2575596@sh4-5.1blu.de) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dXoGa-0000Q5-Ua for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:39:48 +0200 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:39:48 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <20170719123948.GA29881@sh4-5.1blu.de> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz References: <20170719142934.3fe4b9d6.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20170719142934.3fe4b9d6.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:12:10 -0000 El día Wednesday, July 19, 2017 a las 02:29:34PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: > However, specific domains might be lacking functionality as > they are in a "locked market" where no software (or no > sufficient software) might exist outside of a closed ecosystem. > In that case, emulation or virtualization of the target system > sometimes can bring the required functionality to FreeBSD, but > there are still niches where it just does not work as expected. > > It all depends on _what_ you're _actually_ going to do. ;-) I run FreeBSD and KDE (all from SVN trunk) on all my laptops and netbooks. I have no windows at home, and the exceptions to FreeBSD are my wife's laptop (runs Ubuntu) and all mobile devices of my family (all Ubuntu too). And, speaking as a software developer, things which can not be done with the tools provided by FreeBSD and its ports collection, perhaps are not worth to do. matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-176-38902045 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign