From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 10 00:29:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B9416A419 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:29:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDFF13C465 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:29:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so609718fka for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:29:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pPT5lEAXuw6u616bkOcmHgvCN5LQdAs2ySv9dutmINkmuXpyealtEZ9SK8Qx8qsCPsgu81Jetj6ulbxC0oJhyi1TSsoFQ72DWrwwbfUk3dnjtseuuttsXoJXSa/mQk5oBvDmjWySOPpaR5ACnKUkEDFyeHJcJfW1pNxLuXwlT/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C0kc/ilynJa/ZZmXgPEy7lohjFT4WP62TltoKCrq0yrtFrIjeDp+cNbaXj9Sc2Mp6UW7nuFdITggbVfBE/k0y27wiZn4yEH98+1kse/y8oewT4+wWDc6rvFIxJ1uKrtiVik8bnmTKYLmkdxAiHWMB8knrFF2jYJ7Kgn1XGJs+PM= Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr3261566buc.1186705790921; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:29:50 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Latitude In-Reply-To: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:29:53 -0000 On 08/08/07, Latitude wrote: > I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have > to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows > users of how easy the switch may be. It is not all that easy, but most people don't remember what a pain in the ass it was to learn how to use winders. I moved away from the microsoft world when I could no longer run a recent version of winders on a 486dx4 at any speed. It was a serious pain to relearn, but unlike 90% of the winders using crowd, I actually remember using dos3.3 and how awful it was to learn, and how horrible the change to winders3.1 was, and how much worse trying to actually use winders9.5 was. I recieved my joyful feeling recently when helping a friend move from winders2.0.0.0 to eckspee: do you have any clue how many gratuitous, undocumented changes to the administrative functions occur with every "upgrade"? And good luck trying to track down all of the insane locations for personal data. Of course I have drinked most of that incident away, thank Heaven. No, it's not easy, but neiither was learnin' winders. -- --