From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 16:49:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 C33D616A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:49:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF3843D4C for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:49:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9EA1763BA; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20041025163640.GA1244@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <8e.18645afb.2eae7275@aol.com> <20041025163640.GA1244@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:49:37 -0400 To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:49:38 -0000 On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-25 11:15, TM4525@aol.com wrote: >> You're also missing my point on this. You don't have to get into the >> guts >> of windows to make it work. You dont have to be a programmer to tweak >> all of >> the applications, in fact I know more than one "windows tech" who >> knows how >> to set things up but really has no idea what the settings mean. > > This is not really an advantage though, if you ponder a bit the > implications > it has. It basically means that your average "Windows tech" knows > nothing > about the guts of the system (he doesn't need to, according to your > description). Then, when a day comes that something breaks *badly* > his best > suggestion is "throw away the entire thing, and start over with a > bootable > CD-ROM of Windows XYZ". And this differs from your experience in the Windows world...how? :-)