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Bill Moran wrote:

> Windows users love Windows at first, then grow to hate it.
> BSD users hate FreeBSD at first, but grow to love it.


Windows is a luxury car with all the electric devices and trim.
And it's all shoddy and breaks in a few months.

Unix is a Land Rover with NOTHING fitted. But everything you
install properly stays there and keeps working.

(Linux users hate FreeBSD until they realise the pain in their
forehead has mysteriously vanished.)


- d.