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Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO
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"Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> wrote:
> A good desktop os to me is a os where 
> the user himself can set things up the way he wants it, without help 
> from experienced users.

By this definition, not even Windows or MacOS qualify as good desktop OSes. 
Everyone I've ever sold a system to has needed help figuring out how to
do something, installing this, or configuration that.