From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 13:41:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mutsaers.com (dyna-azh-10.dial.eunet.ch [193.72.22.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A5137B532 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 13:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plm@mutsaers.com) Received: (from plm@localhost) by mutsaers.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01367; Mon, 29 May 2000 21:52:44 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to FreeBSD from Windows References: <87hfbhnrw1.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 29 May 2000 21:52:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: BWS - Offwhite's message of "Sun, 28 May 2000 21:52:27 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: <87bt1pnng3.fsf@mutsaers.com> Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> "B" =3D=3D BWS <- Offwhite > writes: B> Going from Windows directly to FreeBSD as your first Unix B> system ever may be very frustrating. I have been using Unix B> systems for years and still get frustrated and stumped at B> FreeBSD does have a GUI interface and you can install Gnome or B> KDE which are both pretty good once you have them installed and B> configured to suit you, but you have to do some work to get B> them there. FreeBSD can also do sound and has decent support B> for fonts, but not to the level as other desktop oriented B> systems. All are available as ports. The initial desktop interface, should you need it, is available on installation. B> Perhaps you would find it easier to start with Linux which does B> strive to create a friendly desktop environment. If you spent B> the $30 to buy a CD set at Best Buy you will also get phone B> support to get past any problems right away. Noooo! That might scare away some people right away from UNIX. What is wrong with starting directly with a real UNIX? I did (coming from Atari/DOS, 14 years ago) and many others did, especially in times that Linux etc. didn't exist yet.=20 Apparently you are assuming that the person is stupid/low-IQ just because he is running Win98. You might be wrong. For someone that can read a manual/handbook and can think, I'm sure it is much more rewarding to directly start with the consistent and well-documented environment of FreeBSD, even though it does somewhat less automatic detections and magic.=20 For generations people (with brains) started on UNIX right away without problems. Why would that be impossible or inadvisable today?!? --=20 Peter Mutsaers | D=FCbendorf | Trust me, I know peter@mutsaers.com | Switzerland | what I'm doing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message