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Any reason why you chose Lumina over many of the other ones? Just curious.
by ullarah 10y ago
Any reason why you chose Lumina over many of the other ones? Just curious.
- peller 10y agoNot the author, but from the FAQ[0] it says Lumina was specifically designed for the needs of TrueOS (aka PC-BSD aka desktop FreeBSD), and "works very well for the BSD community at large." It also does not require a lot of the "typical" dependencies found with more Linux-oriented desktop environments (DBUS, policykit, systemd, etc), thus I imagine making it easier to build/install on OpenBSD. [0] https://lumina-desktop.org/faq/ https://lumina-desktop.org/faq/
- eb0la 10y agoLumina claims it needs about 150MB to run - maybe that's the reason. I wonder how much other desktop/window manager weight (before you ask: I'm on windows 10 - my window manager eats all the RAM it can get ;-).
- hidden_forest 10y agoSure. It's BSD-licensed. Given the choice for similar software, I will always opt for maximally free software. I'm not opposed to other licenses, but if possible, I choose and support the BSD and similar licenses. In addition, it uses almost zero resources. I'm running OpenBSD on a Lenovo T520 with 12GB RAM. Everything works out of the box, which is typical with OpenBSD and Lenovo/older Thinkpads. I don't have the time to compile kernels and mess with tracking down binary blobs, which I won't use as a matter of freedom. Nothing in OpenBSD is a binary blob.