From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 17: 6:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578BE37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD9643E3B for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E04028CE3 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:06:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:06:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze Message-ID: <20020726195011.N18019-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear List, I've been reading some compelling posts lately about people giving up on FreeBSD, and may soon -- sadly -- join their ranks! (There was the guy who posted about FreeBSD being great for servers (surely) but falling short in the desktop/workstation/laptop AND ease-of-use category. Now there's the thread about Dan wanting his xp back. I can relate!) I gave up on Win98 SR1 (1 38gb partition on a 40gb HD) back in Feb 2002 when I installed a Firewire card and Windows got super flakey on me. Didn't like me for that move. I'd often abuse IE (browser) for hours until it brought the stupid 16bit DOS-based OS down with it. Well, after deciding "that's it" and some PartitionMagic four-ways, I blew the dust off my FreeBSD 4.3 CDROMs and installed them by the seat of my pants, but could never get XFree86 3.3.6 working - blank screen! Well at some point recently I ran `boot0cfg /dev/ad0s2` which wiped my MBR completely (I just wanted to boot straight into FreeBSD but still keep the DOS slice around as mountable). So now I'm on an old 8.4gb HD that I booted to absolutely $FREE$ :) floppies and put 4.6 onto, however, XFree86 4.2.0 now suddenly works as does KDE and a very "krashy" Konqueror browser (sigh). Realizing that plugins are impossible (Flash), and the hassle of getting sound players working and my Canon scanner and webcam and PDF readers and *.DOC readers, I think I may be out of the FreeBSD workstation game. Finally going from UNIX user (since 1992) to sysadmin was a terrific learning experience, but a "learning XP" seems more attractive for now especially as XP is built on (sort of) NT and is 32bit and uses protected memory ... until FreeBSD is 34,523,455% more of an OUT-OF-THE-BOX-GUI OS. :( Comments? Admonitions? Saving graces? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message