Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:55:56 -0800 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011129115940.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:59:40AM -0800 References: <02b101c1790e$e802df90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <XFMail.011129115940.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> I've watched pieces of this thread, and your arguments are really fairly > rediculous. You constantly contradict yourself and seem to be on a holy war to > convince people that Windows is the only viable desktop for anyone in an > attempt to combat people who say that their pet OS is perfect everywhere. The > irony is that you are the one proclaiming that your pet OS is perfect on all > desktops. The real truth which you think you are communicating (but aren't) is > that different OS's are good in different places. This includes within the > desktop arena. FreeBSD is a better desktop for me than Windows since I rarely > play games and spend most of my time either reading mail, hacking code, or > chatting on IRC. Since the code I'm hacking is the FreeBSD kernel, it is quite > a bit easier for me to use FreeBSD as my desktop for doing this. This is an excellent point which the most everyone seems to miss these days. I find windows very difficult to use as a desktop. Too much clicking, and not enough tools. So, for windows being user-friendly, I am a user too, and I don't find it friendly at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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