Gnome isn't bad on OpenBSD, but depending on what you don't like about linux, that may not live up to your expectations.
Frankly, though, as an almost life-long Windows user both personally and professionally, if I had GUI concerns I'd seriously consider whether OSX was a viable option rather than Windows. With that said, I wouldn't target either platform for X11. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Patrick Mc(avery <spell_gooder_...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > My name is Patrick, this is my first post here. > > I switched my primary computer from Windows to Linux about 9 years ago. > > I service scientific instruments. About 12 years ago I became aware of the > brutal conditions scientific software is sold under. I have been slowly > writing my own application to work with these instruments, it's taken a long > time because I have had to learn to code. > > I had always planed on deploying on Linux. > > While about 7 out of the 9 years with Linux have been good, the graphical > experience on Linux has plummeted for me. I don't really want to send > prospective customers to Linux any more. I am fearing that Windows may end > up being my only option. > > It looks like OpenBSD is all about software correctness and I am sure it > will be great to work with, in a sort of "back end" way but is there a > desktop manager to work with it that can match the reliability of OpenBSD? > > I tried to load Fluxbox and was disappointed with it. It had several > menubuttons for application that were not yet installed. > > Any help would be very much appreciated, I feel trapped and it sounds weird > to say this but I am really a bit depressed about the idea of heading back > to Windows.
