Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:27:51 -0500 From: "John Sanders" <moose@ebicom.net> To: "Chris Wasser" <cwasser@v-wave.com>, "J McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "FreeBSD Bob" <fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Message-ID: <003001bf227e$5e725c80$0101a8c0@inferno.dissention.ebicom.net>
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-----Original Message----- From: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> To: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; FreeBSD Bob <fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 2:15 PM Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right >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 > Totally agreed, but don't get me wrong on Windows, I'm a large fan of NT 4, in contrast to other windows OS's it has to be the most stable i've ever encountered. Yet none will ever top FreeBSD in my humble opinion, It has inspired me and taught me so much more than I would have ever learned using only Windows. But on the other hand, and I may get flamed for this statment....I am glad in a way that [most] users are of this mindset towards FreeBSD...simply because I couldn't stand to sit by and watch FreeBSD be degraded from the same subculture Linux has spawned and now feeds. But thats just my opinion, I could be wrong -- (Dennis Miller) At any rate, Amen to the above post... John Sanders john@freebsdbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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