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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.

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