Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:15:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011201211516.GG6845@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org> References: <02b101c1790e$e802df90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <XFMail.011129115940.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2001-11-29 13:55:56, Eric Melville wrote: > > 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. Amen to that. I find it increasingly difficult to follow all the changes to Windows setup and configuration, despite the relative 'ease of use' of the interface. Using a Unix desktop for the past 8 years, and working with the same tools under the same fvwm2 desktop for more than 4 years, it's kind of difficult for me to switch to something non-Unix for a desktop. I'm probably growing old and unwielding to 'innovation' and it's not the interface that needs to be blamed, but me. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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