From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 14 12:28:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16784 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 12:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-32-11.bellatlantic.net [151.197.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16633 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 12:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA01450 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:27:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) X-Authentication-Warning: minos.dyn.ml.org: dominus owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:27:21 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Windows and MS prejudice? In-Reply-To: <199806141826.OAA09009@junior.apk.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:14:44 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > >messages from you will be immediately filtered out. I just despise OS > >wars, having encountered too much of it from all sides. If you hate > >Windows or Microsoft, go plant dynamite around the Redmond campus, but > >leave me out of it. > > I remember a person with a similar name that used to winvocate > mercilessly. this person used to troll the OS/2 groups on Fidonet and > usenet, trying to convince people of the merits of MSware. > > Nah, must have been another Gerchmez.... > rantBegin(); What I really don't understand is why people are so adamant about it. My opinion is that you should use the OS that best suits your needs. Windows has advantages as do all Unices and UNIX derived OS's as does OS/2 and any other OS you care to talk about.... with the exception of maybe MacOS which we all trash.. :) UNIX in general is very stable and reliable and lacks the overhead that many 100% GUI OS's place on their users. Modern unices are 32 or 64 bit environments and bypass many of the problems encountered in say DOS or Windows 3.X. Windows * is easy to use and quick to setup and it is well suited to the majority of the people out there. Alot, users don't care that they can change the behavior of their application or that this whizzbang is better than that doflop. Also, there are the people, and more of them than some are willing to admit, that don't care how fast or stable the thing is as long as it works and is easy to use. I just personally wish the world would get over this. The whole argument is pointless. People are religous about their choice of OS and one thread on why one sucks and the other sparkles is not going to change their mind. rantEnd(); James Disclaimer: No machines, OS's, penguins, daemons, or windows were harmed, broken, smashed, mistreated, abused, razzed, or taunted in the making of this rant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message