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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:23:53 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives
Message-ID:  <20110213092353.GA58281@guilt.hydra>
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:53:18AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >
> > You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right?
>=20
> Chad, on the "Desktop", I'd rather run the ratware from Redmond than try
> FreeBSD! The second choice would be Linusware (not that I know much about
> it, but just because "it" seems to support certain aspects which would
> otherwise be painful to get to work with FreeBSD). Third option is PC-BSD
> (which is what you mean with "better OS"). All my servers run FreeBSD
> though. The "better OS" is not so better at the Desktop, hence the choice=
 of
> ratware:-)

You clearly have a different opinion of what constitutes a good OS than I
have.  I prefer a desktop/laptop OS that is stable, reasonably securable,
and productivity enhancing.  I do not find immense and unnecessary bloat,
a fundamentally broken approach to things like privilege separation, and
a GUI so pervasively bound to interfere that CPU can spike to near 100%
just by moving the mouse across the screen to meet those needs.

Perhaps the fact that I use my desktop/laptop systems for things like
writing code and articles rather than playing Guild Wars all day colors
my perceptions.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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