@techokami actually ed is the standard text editor but I'm pretty sure you won't enjoy it lol. NetBSD is very UNIX like and very true to the roots and KISS principles.
I'm not a very big fan of ctwm myself, precisely for the reason you explained; I like that xfce4 comes as a ready made desktop on NetBSD and OpenBSD, but my heart belongs to jwm (for now). Especially that xfce4 is getting sloppy
Oct 4, 2026, 7:43 PM@nina_kali_nina @plzupgrademe @netbsd yeah I know, eventually I'll be installing CDE, but first I need to, you know, make it use something else
@techokami @nina_kali_nina @netbsd excellent choice with CDE. This thread has also been a good reminder to me why I just use MacOS now for my Unix fix. CDE would make it almost worth it to switch.
@plzupgrademe I, on the other hand, keep being fascinated by NetBSD. I think it's incredible how good the OS is considering the size of the project (being at least one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Linux and MacOS) and the funding (almost complete lack of it).