Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:08:20 -0400 From: Yuval Levy <yuval_levy@yahoo.com> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT] Message-ID: <42A466E4.6070609@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42A454AF.3010908@incubus.de> References: <285af087050603095356601a3d@mail.gmail.com> <200506061249.j56Cn1vd018910@lurza.secnetix.de> <285af08705060606255e26aa5b@mail.gmail.com> <42A454AF.3010908@incubus.de>
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Matthias Buelow wrote: >I don't understand this "we need to compete with Windows on the desktop" >thing. I've never considered Windows to be particularly useful as a >desktop environment, why should the Unix systems compete with it? > > > You don't need to compete with Windows. You want to compete against yourself, and improve your own results to become even better. Usability is a count on which FreeBSD has weaknesses, especially in the eye of the large segment of users who value a GUI, i.e. those coming from the Windows world. For as much as I'd like to get rid of Windows on the desktop, I still find myself spending 80% of my time with it... even now, although I am using Thunderbird, available on many OS. The reason is that there is often this one or two application that drive the decision, in this case <http://www.ptgui.com>; which is not available under other platforms (yes, there are alternatives but I have not had time to look into them yet) and Adobe Photoshop, which I could run on a Mac OSX, but I'd have to spend money on overpriced hardware I do not want. >[And btw., please let's move this discussion to -advocacy, since it >doesn't really belong on this list.] > > Agree with you, the FreeBSD vs. Windows belongs in advocacy. In my opinion the original topic of the thread still belongs where it was started. Yuv
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