From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 1 13:37:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8854C37B416; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a033.otenet.gr [212.205.215.33]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fB1Lb3m29652; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:37:04 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB1LFHe10453; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:15:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:15:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eric Melville Cc: John Baldwin , Anthony Atkielski , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011201211516.GG6845@hades.hell.gr> References: <02b101c1790e$e802df90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011129135556.C90325@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i 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 On 2001-11-29 13:55:56, Eric Melville wrote: > > I've watched pieces of this thread, and your arguments are really fairly > > rediculous. You constantly contradict yourself and seem to be on a holy war to > > convince people that Windows is the only viable desktop for anyone in an > > attempt to combat people who say that their pet OS is perfect everywhere. The > > irony is that you are the one proclaiming that your pet OS is perfect on all > > desktops. The real truth which you think you are communicating (but aren't) is > > that different OS's are good in different places. This includes within the > > desktop arena. FreeBSD is a better desktop for me than Windows since I rarely > > play games and spend most of my time either reading mail, hacking code, or > > chatting on IRC. Since the code I'm hacking is the FreeBSD kernel, it is quite > > a bit easier for me to use FreeBSD as my desktop for doing this. > > This is an excellent point which the most everyone seems to miss these > days. I find windows very difficult to use as a desktop. Too much clicking, > and not enough tools. So, for windows being user-friendly, I am a user too, > and I don't find it friendly at all. Amen to that. I find it increasingly difficult to follow all the changes to Windows setup and configuration, despite the relative 'ease of use' of the interface. Using a Unix desktop for the past 8 years, and working with the same tools under the same fvwm2 desktop for more than 4 years, it's kind of difficult for me to switch to something non-Unix for a desktop. I'm probably growing old and unwielding to 'innovation' and it's not the interface that needs to be blamed, but me. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message