From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 13:56: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 59B3937B41E; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:55:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:55:56 -0800 From: Eric Melville To: John Baldwin Cc: Anthony Atkielski , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org> References: <02b101c1790e$e802df90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:59:40AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've watched pieces of this thread, and your arguments are really fairly > rediculous. You constantly contradict yourself and seem to be on a holy war to > convince people that Windows is the only viable desktop for anyone in an > attempt to combat people who say that their pet OS is perfect everywhere. The > irony is that you are the one proclaiming that your pet OS is perfect on all > desktops. The real truth which you think you are communicating (but aren't) is > that different OS's are good in different places. This includes within the > desktop arena. FreeBSD is a better desktop for me than Windows since I rarely > play games and spend most of my time either reading mail, hacking code, or > chatting on IRC. Since the code I'm hacking is the FreeBSD kernel, it is quite > a bit easier for me to use FreeBSD as my desktop for doing this. This is an excellent point which the most everyone seems to miss these days. I find windows very difficult to use as a desktop. Too much clicking, and not enough tools. So, for windows being user-friendly, I am a user too, and I don't find it friendly at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message