On: Ask HN: How do you use your FreeBSD desktop box?

[cperciva]

I'm using FreeBSD on the desktop.

Desktop environment: KDE3.

Text editor: kwrite.

Office suite: OpenOffice.

Web browser: Konqueror for most sites, Firefox for a few sites which don't work in Konqueror.

Email: Thunderbird.

Other communications: Kopete (for ICQ), aMSN (for MSN), ksirc (for IRC).

System administration tools: FreeBSD Update for base system security updates; Portsnap for updating the ports tree; portupgrade for updating installed ports; tarsnap (of course!) for backups.

[apu → cperciva]

Any particular reason you prefer Konqueror to Firefox? Do you feel it's faster?

[cperciva → apu]

Two reasons: First, it does feel faster. Second, I don't have flash enabled in konqueror, which makes some websites far less obnoxious.