Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:07:05 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011121200705.B26507@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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> From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
> To: "Steve Brown" <gtabug@prayforwind.com>, "Chip" <chip@wiegand.org>
> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: home pc use
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:54:05 +0100
>
> Steve writes:
>
> > If you're tired of Windows crashing you sure can!
>
> The KDE environment under FreeBSD stalled or crashed on me nearly half a dozen
> times in one day. That's about as many crashes as I've experienced in two years
> on Windows NT, and all of the Windows NT crashes were due to bad drivers.
>
> Unless he intends to run FreeBSD in its native, command-line mode, he should not
> expect an increase in stability over Microsoft Windows, and he may experience
> the opposite.
Last time I saw KDE it was 1.2 (or something like that) on SuSE-6.4.
I have never seen it crash, but I didn't use it much either.
After trying out a couple of different window managers, I've settled
with blackbox. It's visually appealing (though you'd probably call the look
I use boring), small, fast, rock-stable. And you know what, I think you
would love it: it doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts by default. You have
to click through. It also has a graphical configurator. and it takes half
the space on the screen that windows, windowmaker, KDE or Gnome use.
Erm, back to the topic. I was thinking about replacing windows on my
computers for some time, and when it finally happened, I was surprised by
how little I miss windows: I don't miss it at all. Mind you, I didn't
have powerpoint installed, so all emails I received that had PP attachments
went to trash (with an optional flame to the originators), I never bothered
reading .doc or .xls attachments either. I rather bothered requesting the
originators of such mails to resend such emails with those attachments
converted to plain text. I think I might've been a rather strange windows
user...
As you may notice from my .sig, this box has been last rebooted 29 days
ago. The power went out, and I didn't know how long the UPS would stand.
All that is unstable among the software I use is netscape-4.78 (no good
on windows either), the linux opera, and... that's it. one of the
netscape processes occasionaly goes astray, eating memory. I kill -9 it,
start netscape again, and am done with it. can you do the same on a
windows box? yeah, NT5 is much better than previous versions...
Today was the first day in two months I touched an NT5 box: needed to
debug a JS problem in IE. Other than that, I don't need windows for
anything I do with a computer.
So please, do accept that there are people who can use a unix without
ever thinking of windows. There are people who _don't_ need windows to
use their computer as a personal computer. Unix is not server-only, as
you seem to suggest. It does require your attention, however, something
unheard of in the windows world.
--
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
7:35PM up 29 days, 6:18, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.05, 0.04
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