Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:39:44 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? Message-ID: <20080613223944.GA22516@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20080613202844.P2744@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> <20080611211821.GB25793@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4850E104.2090201@gmail.com> <20080612113725.J4402@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4851B872.2090101@onetel.com> <20080613110158.K86321@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080613165119.GA31171@kokopelli.hydra> <20080613100811.0fb23892@gom.home> <20080613202844.P2744@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:31:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > >the thing with windoze is that you don't have a choice - in fact, until > >recently you couldn't even have multiple desktops. > > it's OK. users that REQUIRE lots of graphics etc.. don't usually make use > of it. so what's wrong with windoze. right software for the right people. > > >with *nix and the creativity inspired by open source there are many, > >many opportunities. > > in unix - as you say - you have a choice in every place. so that's good > that "desktop usage" isn't "improved" in FreeBSD as this improvement == > lack of choice. > > for those who don't like to "hack the system", just have everything just > put up and ready to use, there is already windows! . . . but you'd still get a "cooler" desktop by going with something else, like MacOS X, Ubuntu, or PC-BSD (in increasing order of "coolness" in the glitzy, unnecessary dancing rodents sense) without having to actually express any personal preferences during setup. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] I was essentially an anarcho-capitalist in high school, rather than wasting the folly of my youth on something lame like revolutionary communism. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhS9zAACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXrOgCfddXdKlCvA60Ydy5lYDq7x17z dzMAn2PcB4jC5yNmUwPyn0a3Zk9A5xPE =CxMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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