Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 17:36 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It seems that PC-BSD has set a trend. "DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usability and functionality of KDE and the simplicity of specially developed software to provide a system that's easy to use and install." How this new BSD distribution stacks up against PC-BSD remains to be seen.
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Well, to the poster that suggested this, your assumption is completely off base. The fact that both DesktopBSD and PC-BSD both use KDE, beyond just being an absurdly small sample space of 2, is no basis to draw any conclusion whatsoever, as many BSD users don't use any graphical interface at all. The only thing you might possibly even hypothesize is, a small fraction of the BSD community who believes BSD needs to have an integrated desktop, and point and click installation prefer KDE to Gnome.
I guess I'm just one of those people who feel that anyone who isn't capable of learning how to use ports is too technically inept to spend any time on whatsoever. No, it's not because I'm arrogant and feel that BSD users should be for the elite, but that BSD as it is is already so mindnumbingly easy. It doesn't get any easier or logical than to install packages built from source the exact same way you compile source. Worse comes to worst, you just browse a file directory and type the "magic" command sequence. After all, aren't so-called "users" just looking for the magical all-in-one solution that automagically handles all possible situations?