From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 3 20:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8F7F37B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joel2a@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO star1) (198.252.45.169) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 03:53:47 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010803234841.00dfe600@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Sender: joel2a@pop.mail.yahoo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 23:52:44 -0400 To: Julian Peterson From: joel2a@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010804144700.00ba6428@pop3.xtra.co.nz> References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well maybe one last response since I've had a couple Guiness beers. >I did my masters thesis using emacs and latex. It was very easy. lol, I can't help from laughing, when was that? In the 1960's? lol Joel At 03:10 PM 8/4/01 +1200, you wrote: >At 22:26 3/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: >>Well I just have to say that if there wasn't Windows we would all be back >>the days of console prompt typing and there certainly would not be as >>many people on the internet. > >yeah uh huh. oh I forgot, Microsoft invented the GUI right? And the >Internet too? Sure. > > >>While Unix is good and freebsd is cool to have much of the open source >>software is still very bugged. > >And Windows isn't? FreeBSD and Linux (and Unix in general) are far more >stable than Windows. > > >>If anyone is wondering why KDE or Kthis or gnome that doesn't work >>right... what do you expect! >>It's open source and why don't you learn C and fix it yourself! > >They have work to be done on them, granted. The cool thing is work *is* >being done on them... at a dizzing rate. Both of those desktop >environments have come a long way very quickly, and personally I'd choose >either over Windows any day. I find I'm much more productive because I >can tailor my desktop to exactly the way I want. > >Windows doesn't work right... what can I do about that? > > >>Not really to bash anyone but I think Microsoft bashers really don't have >>a clue themselves and I kinda like playing Asheron's Call or Everquest on >>a windows machine! >>Try playing that on a a Unix machine! > >I'm more of a Quake player myself... > >Games are one of things that will come as market share improves. As it is >I've never felt like I'm missing out, but then I'm not much of a gamer. >There's a bunch of solutions to that anyway... dual boot, wine, >lokigames.com, and the PS2 > > >>Word processing in a console and putting it through Postscript to get >>formatting! GIVE ME A BREAK! Some of you Microsoft bashers are worse than >>not having a clue! How about getting a life! > >I did my masters thesis using emacs and latex. It was very easy. All I >had to do was write, all of the formatting and layout was taken care >of. I watched one guy struggle through with Word... after a few hundred >pages with images it got so very very slow, and eventually corrupted >itself. *shrug* > >If you want a GUI for latex, there's Lyx > >If you really really feel that you can't live without a GUI word >processor, well there's Abiword, Wordperfect, Applix, Kword, and >Staroffice (just off the top of my head). > > >Julian. > > >PS. For not wanting to bash anyone, you do a pretty lousy job. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message