From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 09:21:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A5D16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5731643D41 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@chello.cz) Received: (qmail 41167 invoked by uid 0); 21 Apr 2004 16:21:53 -0000 Received: from r3al16.mistral.cz (HELO isis.wad.cz) (213.220.229.16) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 21 Apr 2004 16:21:53 -0000 Received: by isis.wad.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 09ECF2FDA01; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:21:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:21:52 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Martin Hudec Message-ID: <20040421162152.GA2088@isis.wad.cz> References: <4085F03F.4050904@pacific.net.sg> <20040421091343.GB1051@isis.wad.cz> <20040421110304.GE2638@pleiades.aeternal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040421110304.GE2638@pleiades.aeternal.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user-opinion poll?! [was: Would this be useful?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:21:55 -0000 # corwin@aeternal.net / 2004-04-21 13:03:04 +0200: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:13:43AM +0200 or thereabouts, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > This is the point where their route to FreeBSD ends. > > > > I don't have to imagine being a Windows user as I *was* one, > > and I wanted to try FreeBSD (4.0 at that time). All I got was that > > handbook. Unix just looked all greek to me. > > > > That was the point where my route to FreeBSD began. > > Or did you mean a *dumb* Windows user? > > There is nothing like "dumb windows user".. they have their Windows and > they are happy, cause Windows and its bunch of software is everything > they need to be satisfied. Are all windows users smart? That doesn't look very likely from the statistics point of view. Note that I didn't assert *all* windows users were dumb. There are smart people, there are dumb people, and both groups use computers, both groups use Windows. I'm not going to pretend it is not so. I remember a post on questions@ in which someone reported this problem: he tried to install FreeBSD several times, but all attempts failed; the thing rebooted the computer, and left him with a screen of crap ending with "Login:", which he couldn't get past because it insisted he must give it some password (he had no idea what password). Now, I of course don't know/remember whether the person was a Windows user, for what it's worth he could be completely new to computers. It doesn't matter. The post suggested the person wasn't particularly inteligent. I don't want the project to cater for such people. -- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 1:14PM up 3:45, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00