Linuxneophyte
07-14-2001, 12:44 PM
This is by no means a rant against Linux, it's a great OS, and I've put it on some more modern machines with good results so far.
I made a topic awhile back comparing Linux and the GUI to peanut butter and gasoline (it was kind of a joke anyways). Was meet with some criticism, but oh well. Anyways, I put on BSD instead on the box. And it runs fine actually, even with K. FreeBSD's installation is much easier than any of the Linux distros I found. Linux goofed up with detecting the hardware improperly, and took twice as long to install. And even when I got it working in Linux, the GUI was sluggish, and it had a flickering problem with my video card. FreeBSD seems more coordinated and less bloated than most of the Linux distros.
Well, so I tried FreeBSD, and it went flawlessly for the most part (Gnome + Sawfish for some reason wouldn't install right, but KDE did, haven't tried any others). It seems a little slow to open the filemanager for some reason. But everything else is up to par.
Anyways, that's just my experience.
I made a topic awhile back comparing Linux and the GUI to peanut butter and gasoline (it was kind of a joke anyways). Was meet with some criticism, but oh well. Anyways, I put on BSD instead on the box. And it runs fine actually, even with K. FreeBSD's installation is much easier than any of the Linux distros I found. Linux goofed up with detecting the hardware improperly, and took twice as long to install. And even when I got it working in Linux, the GUI was sluggish, and it had a flickering problem with my video card. FreeBSD seems more coordinated and less bloated than most of the Linux distros.
Well, so I tried FreeBSD, and it went flawlessly for the most part (Gnome + Sawfish for some reason wouldn't install right, but KDE did, haven't tried any others). It seems a little slow to open the filemanager for some reason. But everything else is up to par.
Anyways, that's just my experience.