From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 12:15:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crash.ab.videon.ca (crash.ab.videon.ca [206.75.216.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDFC14FFF for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwasser@v-wave.com) Received: from area51 (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by crash.ab.videon.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id NAA18006; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:11:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <008701bf2241$947e7f80$271a6c18@vwave.com> From: "Chris Wasser" To: "J McKitrick" , "FreeBSD Bob" Cc: References: Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:12:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: J McKitrick To: FreeBSD Bob Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:55 AM Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right > I agree. A simple easy-tryout version of FBSD would be nice. Frankly, --cut-- I've said it a hundred times, Microsoft and Windows have turned the usually intelligent end-user into a brainless double-clicking fool. Sure, MS may have made computers easy to use but it's been my experience that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is. Afterall, if you have to maintain and support as many Winsux boxes as I do, you'll get bitter as well. Man I sure miss my old Tandy Color Computer 3... in those days, computer users were considered to be little men who hid in dark rooms with the glow of a CRT illuminating their face, for the most part, this wasn't too far from the truth. The point of this rambling is, with UNIX/FreeBSD there is a big learning curve if you're from the era of double-clicks, however, I found that after the initial learning curve (ie: how to move around, etc) I found it was the same comfortable place such as the old days of MS/PC-DOS ... There is a curve involved, and UNIX is not there for instant-gratification. And yes, when people tell you to RTFM it's for a good reason and generally your own good. So if you want the easy road, stick with Winsux and I garauntee you'll be no smarter then you were 5 minutes ago. If you want to get those juices flowing in yer melon, then rough it out with UNIX and learn something useful. Don't bother having some sort of infantile temper-tantrum just because you don't know how to read. FreeBSD != Winsux .... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message