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I've been running it on most of my personal laptops since around version 10. It's a lot like how Linux felt in the late 90s. Depends on your hardware and what you want to do. But it's solid.

If you could handle Linux in the late 90s you can handle it.





So you're saying KDE and Gnome and xfce and enlightenment and openBox, etc, are all desktops that run like the 90s? These current versions, and many more, run on FreeBSD.

No, I was talking mostly about perception of hardware support, package management, and a pre-systemd init system.

But which DE you run is entirely up to you. I'm writing this with FreeBSD running fvwm. On my laptops I run dwm.

Also:

> enlightenment

I haven't kept up with recent developments, but this is the most 1990s WM that ever 1990s'd.


It was early and I couldn't think of all the desktop names so I Googled for "popular Linux desktops" and that's one of them it gave me. Apparently Linux runs a "most 1990s WM that ever 1990s'd".



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