From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 2: 5:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E545E37B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA1A4lG53944; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:04:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <004801c162bc$af5dac50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <008101c162a3$429a8a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:05:01 +0100 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted writes: > What I was indicating is that the statement that > the Windows UI is superior than the UNIX UI has no > meaning because you can put the Windows UI on > UNIX if you want. If I put the Windows UI on UNIX, I'm not running the UNIX UI anymore. And if I want to do that, it's a lot simpler to just run Windows in the first place. The fact that you might be able to get a Windows UI of sorts running under UNIX doesn't negate the significant and fundamental inferiority of the UNIX UI from the standpoint of a typical desktop user. > People become emotionally attached to their cars, > and you ask this?!? :-) I've asked why they become emotionally attached to their cars, too. Cars are just a necessary evil that one must use to travel intermediate and long distances sometimes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message