From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 20: 2:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4125237B41B for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB342Dx77275; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:02:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <019501c17baf$4ae465a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Technical Information" Cc: "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" References: <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org><040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org><003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org><005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org><4.3.2.7.2.20011202215531.018f3d80@threespace.com> <15370.62287.191056.315669@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:02:13 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > Those two lines pretty much sum up how most of > the non-geeks I know feel about Windows. It > sucks, they know it sucks, but it's not > critical and they don't want to fool with it. In part they say that because that's what their geek friends say; they really don't know or care themselves. I've had non-geek friends tell me how much better Linux is than Windows, even though they aren't sure exactly what Linux is (a different kind of computer? a new word-processing program? a new version of ICQ?). They just echo whatever they are told by people they consider "experts." You can tell which "experts" they've talked to, too, by which products they think are superior (Linux or UNIX usually means they have friends in college or just starting out, for example, and Mac usually means that they have friends who work in the fine arts). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message