From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 21:37:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEC9337B53E for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 9388 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2000 04:37:04 -0000 Received: from du17.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.17) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 2 Jun 2000 04:37:04 -0000 Message-ID: <393739CF.2115B00C@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 00:36:31 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE References: <200006012335.QAA00649@usr07.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I think the important thing is not to create false expectations (of ease > > and simplicity) in the minds of those who have never been exposed to a > > real operating system. > > I think the import thing is to create TRUE expectations of > ease of use and simplicity in the minds of those who have > never been exposed to FreeBSD. > > Of course that means changing the code to have those as > attributes. But can that be done without radically changing the nature of the OS? Home users and small businesses have been accustomed to a single-user OS. Multi-user OSes are necessarily more complex and (in some ways) more limiting than single-user OSes. People are not prepared for, and may not put up with, these complexities and limitations. For example, people will say: "What do you mean I have to login? I didn't have to do that with Windows." or "What do you mean I can't undelete a file? I could do that with Windows." This is not to say that FreeBSD can't be made simpler, but there is a limit, and that limit is more complex than Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message