Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:05:49 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: As usual, I disagree. Message-ID: <003801c179eb$2cd9ef00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15366.58396.746782.116282@guru.mired.org><036901c17949$335163b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.35596.70893.123850@guru.mired.org><03fa01c179ac$e85cdba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.40254.191788.665077@guru.mired.org><040c01c179b0$c01ff790$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.44663.511557.67023@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > One of the things that makes Windows an unpleasant > desktop for me is that many of the applications > act like they are the only thing running, which > make using the multitasking ability of the system > much more painfull than it is on Unix. Yes. That is a tremendously common design error in Windows applications, and I've even seen it in Microsoft products (for example, I hate the way many MS products force themselves to take the input focus when they are started--sometimes I want to start the application but still do other things while it is coming up). > Unix has enough applications to be flexible enough > to get the job done. Not for the desktop. > That's true for only one of the users I know. For > the rest, it only matters if they can download a > copy from the net, or get one from a friend. Your users must be mostly geeks. Non-geeks don't know how to download things from the Net. > First, you might try VNC instead of pcAnywhere. I don't plan to attempt any remote administration of NT if I can avoid it. > Since even heavy users seldom use more than a > few hundred applications, having access to a > few thousand is usually sufficient ... The problem is that they don't all need access to the _same_ thousand applications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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