Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:32:12 +0200 From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <20020914083144.517D3263992@pfepc.post.tele.dk>
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On Friday 13 September 2002 19:46, you wrote: > However, I would not run any > flavor of UNIX on the desktop. I tried that for a short time and it was a > joke. Clearly, people who run UNIX on the desktop have little else to do > but play with their computers; I could never afford to dedicate that much > time to just getting a system to work. That was my thought when I started playing with *nix. My background was with AmigaOS where things just worked. My first choice of *nix was RedHat, an OS out of hell. Dependency-hell, selfinvented configuration, stuff not working etc.. Then I turned to Slackware, where everything just *worked*. It was a pleasant experience, though I *did* use a lot of time installing, configuring etc., but that was fun and I learned a lot about *nix'. But somewhere along the road this grew kind of tiresome and then I tried FreeBSD. It's ports-system is absolutely marvelous. I hardly spend any time configuring and tweaking, but get the same feel of power and control I had with Slackware. I'd reckon I'd use just as much time setting up a FreeBSD desktop than a Windows dekstop. My point being, ones experiences with *nix really depends on which solution you choose and what you are looking for. And moreover, if you're accustomed to one desktop, changing habbits is hard and would almost always leave you with the feel that the "new" desktop is inferior to your old. *I* still feel that any OS is inferior to my old AmigaOS. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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