From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 16:50:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABD737B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:50:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BD94872F for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:50:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from cft@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g250oNK23039 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:50:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:50:23 -0500 From: Carl Tucker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Message-ID: <20020305005023.GA19732@panix.com> References: <20020304181911.C483_osiris.sigterm.com@ns.sol.net> <005201c1c34f$f6b0f730$6f830acf_gdennyj@ns.sol.net> <200203041132.g24BW5g50751@sheol.localdomain> <20020304074902.A35545@freeze.org> <20020305104135.E1002@osiris.sigterm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020305104135.E1002@osiris.sigterm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:41:35AM +1100, Stuart Tanner wrote: > The "intuitive" UI doesn't exists. What people mean when they talk > about it is "familiar". While the line between 'intuitive' and 'familiar' is not sharp, I think there are some things that qualify as 'intuitive'. 'Enter' should select the highlighted selection. Tab and up/down arrows should move from selection to selection. Escape should back up one menu. sysinstall is unintuitive, not unfamiliar. I've used it dozens of times, and every time I curse whoever came up with it's menu navigation scheme. I was a bit over my head when I installed FreeBSD the first time, too. I'd done Linux (several flavors) before, but that wasn't enough. Am I ed1, or what? where's eth0? Luckily, I sprang for the bundle from windriver that included Greg Lehey's book. Otherwise, FreeBSD probably would have gone the same way as every RedHat installation I've tried: Could probably be done, but I know how to install SuSE with less effort. -- Carl Tucker cft@panix.com flestrin@worldnet.att.net tuckercl@phnsy.navy.mil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message