If you haven't used yours for a few days, then it's going to take the better part of an hour or so for it to totally renew and upgrade itself before you can jump into it and start exploring the new improvements, and there's quite a few.
Unlike Windows, these folks don't hype the hell out of you first, and then demand that you sell one of your kids into slavery so that you can afford their latest incarnation. They simply show you a little icon that indicates there are new packages available, and when you click on that to check it out, it starts a whole sequence of downloading and then installing everything in the package. In this case, 1 GB of downloads requiring an additional 557 MB of disk space in addition to that already in use for it.
A whole fresh installation of it, in other words. So, "What's it like?" you ask. And I answer "It's the open-source world's answer to both Microsoft and Apple, and it looks and acts like a cross between Windows and OS-X, with the balance tipped toward the OS-X, with its optional programs and features predetermined and listed by categories from which you choose. Because: both this and OS-X have been derived from Unix code, but I hasten to add here that we can't grab Apple's widgets to use in this one. We have to use the widgets made for this, but there's no shortage, so don't fret about it."
If you're having a rainy weekend like we are, this would be a good time to get to know PC-BSD 10.0.02 and discover a whole other operating system that doesn't require opening your wallet before opening the program. They do accept donations, though.
Here's a screen showing the AppCafe's category list (alphabetical) and below it
the 'Applications Available = 2174' and 'Total Packages = 23351' and this is what I meant by it being similar to OS-X. You choose your add-ins from the approved list, not by grabbing things off the web, like I've been doing for years with Windows. Below this screen is another of the Desktop, without that window blocking the view.
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