Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:04:53 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <39579B45.9FAC1820@acuson.com> References: <85256907.0054D783.00@Deimos.smed.com> <39541EE8.EBD5BDDF@newsguy.com> <20000624092439.A31497@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Daniel C. Sobral said on Jun 24, 2000 at 11:37:28: > > > * Because it isn't as forgiving of errors as Windows. > > I keep seeing this one and also "it's not as easy to administer as > Windows". Both of which are nonsense (imo). Any unix has so many > inbuilt safeguards that it's *much* more forgiving of errors than > windows -- > ... I think you sidestepped the point. Windows will forgive you of your error and blithly go right ahead and destroy itself. In other words, Windows is not a "nagging" as Unix. A lot of people new to computers like and want this lack of nagging. When we were children our mothers kept nagging us to 'eat your vegetables.' We hated the nagging, hated the vegetables, and did not fully realize how important vegetables were. If we had a choice, we would have taken the motherly love and free dinners without the nagging. Well, Windows will give us the motherly love and free meals and it won't nag us to eat our veggies. Trouble is, Windows will cause will also give use scurvy! We find out way too late that we need to be nagged. Concrete example. Under X, if there is a serious server error, we will get dumped out to the command line and presented with a cryptic message. Under Windows, we will instead be presented with a popup dialog asking us if we wish to continue. I have to agree with the previous poster that Windows is very forgiving of errors and Unix isn't. But that is a Good Thing. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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