Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:16:36 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <00d801c17b5d$7c7fcd90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200112021647.fB2Gl2x17334@freebie.atkielski.com>
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Doug writes: > surprisingly enough, i agree with you here. So does the market, apparently, since most desktops are Windows, whereas most servers are still running UNIX (as far as I know). > from a basic X setup, it _really_ _really_ sucks. > I admit that. but if you spend the couple days / > weeks, its not bad. The average user does not want to spend more than a couple of _minutes_ to set things up. Only geeks with nothing else do to are willing to spend days or weeks on such a task. > that is because it is free, so don't bitch. Commercial versions of UNIX are not necessarily any better. > ie Windows 2000 as a server Or Windows NT, or any version of Windows, for that matter. > actually, you can leave out Win2000. it is garbage. > I've been running it off and on, it doesn't have > any 3d support, the video drivers for it lockup > randomly, and the print sharing sucks ... Hmm. I've heard mostly rave reviews about Windows 2000. I don't run it myself because Windows NT already does everything I require, and I don't want to risk going through exactly the sort of thing that you describe above. I _know_ that everything on my machine works correctly now under Windows NT, so why would I upgrade to Windows 2000 and spend six months trying to achieve parity with what I already have today? > it is going bye - bye as soon as i convert back to > FAT32. (dumbass me converted to ntfs). Windows NT is nice, although, if you weren't using NT to begin with, changing from 2000 to NT would just be a lateral move, with the same problems. So would changing to any other operating system, for that matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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