From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 20:22:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946E337B41A for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB84MAx18883; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 05:22:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00c901c17f9f$e80a95e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a00000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org><006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15377.18218.830731.410656@guru.mired.org><008101c17f9a$1a4a4290$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15377.36617.358466.76379@guru.mired.org><00ab01c17f9d$0bde8510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.37214.213789.306335@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 05:22:09 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > That's the pointy-haired managers approach. That's any good manager's approach, in the absence of additional information. Sometimes you have to make decisions based on what you have. If you need to choose a desktop, and that's all you know, Windows is the best choice. Additionally, if you are asked what desktop to install who apparently _cannot_ answer the question "What do you want to do with it?" then again Windows is the best choice, because it is specifically designed for people who aren't exactly sure what they want to do with their system. Interestingly, in serverland, the general answer is not as obvious, because UNIX and Windows are about equally distributed in that domain. However, if someone asked me for a server recommendation and _didn't know_ what he wanted to use the server for, I'd recommend Windows, as Windows is easier to administer for the clueless. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message