Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:15:08 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200215231508.ca17067a03bc9c71840c38ee@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200215232623.7995b06e@archlinux> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAHieY7Ss0SftTD6S%2Bk2OkX-PinTwzEXGQwz1twmwZ5ZMndpc%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <1848571509.3253011.1581719423989@mail.yahoo.com> <20200215195303.464e585a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200215202033.6c856b8f7639b304d96e68ce@sohara.org> <20200215215825.5d3c9a1a@archlinux> <20200215211542.e8cc2827fc4664ea4bcad918@sohara.org> <20200215223449.355a9ac9@archlinux> <20200215223649.40196f37@archlinux> <20200215232623.7995b06e@archlinux>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:26:23 +0100 Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > That something is more used then something else, doesn't necessarily > indicate that it's the best choice or that the usage is reasonable at > all. Quite so very few people have a good overview of the options and sometimes the best choice is simply overlooked. Edward de Bono ran some interesting experiments that showed this up, one observation was that people have a strong tendency to try and use all the resources that might help when a better, but less obvious, solution is available using only some of them. > I bet that more desktop computers on this planet run Windows, than Of course. > FreeBSD or Linux for tasks, in domains that are better supported by > FreeBSD or Linux. More so in the data centre than on the desktop, but even there I'd far rather write a document in troff or LaTeX than do battle with Word. Back in the mid 1980s I set a thousand page reference book using a database query feeding troff on an 80286 Xenix machine. Try doing that with MS Office on a modern desktop that has more than a thousand times as much memory and processing power as that Xenix machine had. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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