Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

[John-Mark Gurney]

Kyle Evans wrote this message on Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 14:34 -0500:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:05 PM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Jim Salter has an article in Ars Technica discussing his experience
> > with FreeBSD 12.1 as a desktop:
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-freebsd-12-1-release/
> >
> > There are some points in there that might involve misunderstanding,
> > but there are also a number of real issues raised about the experience
> > a new (or newish) desktop FreeBSD user will have. It will be a good
> > idea for us to examine these, and offer advice or corrections if
> > appropriate, and otherwise look how we can improve the FreeBSD
> > experience for new users.
> 
> Random small collection of thoughts I had after reading this:

[...]

> 2. re: default shell and niceties: complete agreement, IMO we should
> at least have basically usable history at a minimum

Hmm...  I wonder if this is a terminal issue or something.  I do
remember /bin/sh not working w/ up/down arrow, but I just tried in
a jail, and up/down arrows work fine.  Also, I normally just "set -o vi"
using /bin/sh to give me vi keys in the shell and then it just works...

Guess more exploration is needed of a fresh install to figure it out...

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."