Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:49:41 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <00e201c25b88$9c7af960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209130754.49828.bts@babbleon.org> <007901c25b4d$6f55f970$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209132037.40608.bts@babbleon.org>
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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
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