From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 17:49:47 2002 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 4520837B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9A543E65 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:49:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g8E0nfB14144 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:49:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00e201c25b88$9c7af960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209130754.49828.bts@babbleon.org> <007901c25b4d$6f55f970$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209132037.40608.bts@babbleon.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:49:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian writes: > Trying it for a short time was no doubt the > problem. I tried running Windows XP for just thirty seconds, and it ran fine. I've been running it ever since. > Getting X initially configured can be a pain, > though it has greatly improved, but once you > have it set up it stays set up better and requires > less fiddling than Windows in my experience. I didn't have to do anything to set up Windows XP; I just turned the machine on. I haven't had to fiddle with it at all since, either. > I will say that the "mount" semantics (requiring > that you mount the CD and/or floppy) *are* a real > pain for the desktop. Actually that is one of the few things that I like. It emphasizes that these media are not perpetually online. > The lack of programs, especially games, is the > only drawback I can see, and I don't happen to > play games, so that's no loss. I never play games, so I don't care about their availability. But of the hundreds of other programs I use on the desktop, only two or three work on any flavor of UNIX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message