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Only DE which supports all BSD, Linux most DEs have problem in one or other BSD or require lot of patches to be used with

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I think at least one of their devs uses OpenBSD as their primary OS, but I read that as a comment, so not sure if ture. It's great XFCE is available across distros and the BSD's

GNOME and KDE both work fine on Linux and FreeBSD. In addition, OpenBSD usually gets the newest GNOMEs.

It has gotten better on the BSDs, but there are a lot of patches and shims that have been implemented and maintained to do that though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGwaT5rQML0&t=580s

Should be worth noting that NetBSD is its own thing; FreeBSD and OpenBSD haven't had problems getting the newest GNOME versions for the entire lifetime of 3.0 and higher.

Unlike Linux, the BSDs aren't distributions of some "upstream BSD"; instead they are developed independently with different feature sets and different goals. Unique challenges for NetBSD don't reflect on how other BSD derivations behave.

I know that, but GNOME support on FreeBSD and OpenBSD wasn't frictionless either. They just took care of it a lot faster/sooner. A ton of work has gone into getting GNOME working on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well as it does from some developers on the GNOME project and FreeBSD and OpenBSD developers helping out too. Just because it doesnt appear to be as big of a problem today, doesn't mean it never was.

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/02/19/on-portability/ [2] https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/19/on-portability/ [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/10/msg00580.html

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