From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 21 14:59: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3171437B449 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 14:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6B97; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:43:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3B031D4A.A4CF4BB1@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:37:30 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wisesage98@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: I'm leaving References: <20010517002014.2472.qmail@web9505.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JTSage wrote: > IMHO, a GUI install would be a pretty bad idea, because the possibilty of it > not "just work"ing is too great. But an installer that could set up a GUI that > would "just work", even with only a 90% success rate, now THAT would be great! Call me a dinosaur, obsolete curmudgeon, or just an old fart, I don't care. But I would much rather have a text installer that works 100% of the time than be one of those 10% that the GUI install fails on. > > Yes. Most people fall into the "I don't give a damn how it works, > > just do what I wanted" camp. Let me translate that into how I read it: "I don't give a damn how the much the car leaks oil or belches out smoke or offends the neighbors with its stench, just get me to work in the morning." I don't want an OS that just works. I can get that with Windows. I want an OS that works well. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message