Re: Great experience with 5.8

Lumina DE is also worth a try... :) been rocking it on 5.8

On 10/25/15, Bill Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is my repaired post - Sorry !
>
> I have long used OpenBSD on small servers or to run half a dozen Xterms,
> but when upgrading an old Optiplex 745 to 5.8, I decided to bite the bullet
> and install a desktop. I had always assumed I’d get it running but it
would
> be a configuration nightmare and I’d have to rebuild menus and fiddle
with
> settings for eons and that nothing would ever work quite right. I'm pleased
> to say that my assumptions were completely wrong. It took less than half an
> hour to install XFCE4 and configure everything perfectly, including
> downloading packages. There was no esoteric configuration necessary, just
> basic common sense things.
>
> I'm sold on the OpenBSD desktop.
>
> -Bill Sorenson
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Bill Sorenson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> My original post seems to have been truncated.
>> On Oct 24, 2015 4:46 PM, "Daniel Villarreal" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I use OpenBSD with Xfce for my main Desktop and it's rock-solid, easy to
>>> use, easy to update. Even on my old hardware, it's very smooth.
>>>
>>> I'm getting ready to update to 5.8 and also install on an extra hard
>>> drive for another computer here. I'm really looking forward to even more
>>> high-quality computing with OpenBSD.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Daniel Villarreal
>>> https://ideas2learn.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> On 10/24/15 16:29, Bill Sorenson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have long used OpenBSD on small servers or to run half a dozen
>>>> Xterms,
>>>> but
>>>> when upgrading an old Optiplex 745 to 5.8, I decided to bite the bullet
>>>> and
>>>> install a desktop. I had always assumed I’d get it running but it
would
>>>> be a
>>>> configuration nightmare and I’d have to rebuild menus and fiddle with
>>>> settings for eo