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That's it?

You felt that one desktop manager of one specific Linux distribution was like Windows and decided to extrapolate it to all desktop managers of all distributions of Linux and go for a non-Linux version? Or from the TrueOS handbook:

"TrueOS® uses several similar, but different elements to their counterparts on Windows."

I hope that you and your Windows' will be happy together.

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I have run a lot of different desktops for Linux. I don't know precisely how much of the space I've covered but all of the more "mainstream" ones. Prior to loading TrueOS and its desktop I was using xfce. Prior to that my most common desktop was KDE. I've used different Gnome variants, Unity variants, bare bones variants.

And non of that is used as an argument. You just yell Ubuntu 18.04 with an unspecified desktop and conclude that you like none of the Linuxes with whatever Desktop and decide without argument that you do like FreeBSD. My advise to you is to be more specific because it still doesn't make any sense.

The issues for Ubuntu 18.04 were several; Changing networking once again, additional encroachment of systemd on otherwise solved problems, new (and unneeded to me) cloud extensions that required research to turn off, Etc. My post here was not to 'slam' Ubuntu, it was to share that I had tried a Desktop version of FreeBSD (those are rare) and found it quite refreshing and familiar.

I am running Xubuntu 18.04 and unless one is running some cloud image one has little to adjust. I am not even defending (x)ubuntu or over TrueOS. I had been running a FreeBSD Desktop when it was called PCBSD and found it to be lacking very early on.

My opinion is that it is a nice OS for email and browsing but a developer should not have to endure the pain of the constant fight to keep up with tooling.

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