Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:53:25 +0200 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= <nzp@riseup.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD Message-ID: <20110401155325.GA57989@sputnjik.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=7BPRDpG0Sc7bV36e-C-QEjHHT9ExZMCyHf3Zf@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <1301391185.71226.36.camel@xenon> <AANLkTikt8K7K%2BcY76iNjJkx_qQLCAhd=b74OKmX1w4th@mail.gmail.com> <20110329172256.GD46127@sputnjik.localdomain> <AANLkTi=7BPRDpG0Sc7bV36e-C-QEjHHT9ExZMCyHf3Zf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:56:09PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > 2011/3/29 Nikola Pavlović <nzp@riseup.net>: > > As far as eye candy goes, I assure you KDE Plasma bells and whistles > > (compositing etc.) work just fine even on a 9 year old Pentium 4 w/ 1GB > > RAM and an NVidia GeForce 6200. I'm actually amazed how well it works, > > it's faster than XFCE on Slackware was... Weird stuff. O.o (I'm not > > really implying anything, just noticing something I didn't expect.) > > Nice. :) > Maybe it's time to give KDE4 another try. I haven't used KDE in years, but a few months ago I switched to FreeBSD on my desktop and since there's nothing but KDE and Gnome on the installation DVD, I figured it wouldn't hurt anything if I tried KDE (I really don't like Gnome :). And whaddya know, I ended up liking it, it feels comfortable. I'm certainly not a fan of the whole Akonadi, Nepomuk, Telepathy, etc. hysteria, but as long as I don't need to run and use it I'm happy to ignore it and just use features I need/want. > Its' graphics performance > seems be to have been improved with Release 4.2 anyway (at least I've > been told), and my last test was with an early 4.0 release. My wifes' > laptop is on Linux for some time now, and I already noticed that > nspluginwrapper + flash plugin are stable even after updates. My experience with Flash on FreeBSD has so far been just fine. Sure, it crashes and coredumps often, but when it does I just reload the page and/or "pkill npviewer" and everything's fine. In fact, I had more trouble with it on Linux: after watching a lot of videos or after leaving a page w/ a video loaded for a few hours it would stop working and Firefox would have to be restarted (at least that's the only solution I found). That said, I really go out of my way to avoid Flash, and when I need it for watching videos I tend to use tools that stream flv through Mplayer, for example multimedia/youtube-viewer, and others have mentioned multimedia/minitube, multimedia/cclive and multimedia/quvi. In fact I prefer that method to playing it in a browser, but I'm the kind of person who thinks www/surfraw is better than doing a search in a browser directly. ;) -- An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
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