From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 22:05:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F82816A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:05:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038E143D2F for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:05:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F1169A39; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:05:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:05:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: kaelthun@zeelandnet.nl Message-Id: <20041001180553.2fffccbd.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <37270.127.0.0.1.1096668060.squirrel@127.0.0.1> References: <37270.127.0.0.1.1096668060.squirrel@127.0.0.1> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: JohnsoBS@vicksburg.navy.mil cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Platforms X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:05:55 -0000 kaelthun@zeelandnet.nl wrote: > Thanks guys. And I most certainly will enjoy FreeBSD as Microsoft windows > is really starting to get to me >:| Acutally, you probably won't enjoy it at first. My experience: Windows users love Windows at first, then grow to hate it. BSD users hate FreeBSD at first, but grow to love it. The reason is that Windows is easy to use and learn, but once you understand it, you start to realize all the problems and shortcomings it has. FreeBSD (or any Unix-like system) doesn't pretent to be easy to learn. It _is_ learnable, it just takes some time. But after 5 years of using FreeBSD as my desktop computer, I'm _still_ learning new ways to use it to make my work easier. And I had it working better than Windows 5 years ago. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com