Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:49:40 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m@icg-online.de> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? Message-ID: <20081118154446.H84809@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081118154009.2e3be393.usselmann.m@icg-online.de> References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118123147.GA96005@ei.bzerk.org> <94136a2c0811180444n51cae14bg70654bc7b93445f8@mail.gmail.com> <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118154009.2e3be393.usselmann.m@icg-online.de>
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> > This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not > very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. > when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have > read even the user interface of Mac OS X is much better that Windows > although they have a much smaller market share. so why it have a much smaller market share? > Anyhow, of course you > can fully replace Windows with a unix(-like) system and a suitable > desktop enviroment (e.g. KDE, Gnome, XFCE). It depends on your specific > requirements and if applications exist which do what you need. But > saying that GUI's under Unix are per se inferior is just spreading FUD. > Leave that to MS. ;-) after being one of sponsors of "easy" linux distributions and desktop environment (RedHat), microsoft now can say the truth that it's crap. > > Just a small example, how limited Windows really is: Even today it is you don't have to tell me this. as all unix "desktop environments" are. because this style of computing is limited by general. In technical university nearest me there was (or is) a guy that when teaching students unix he said: --- Don't use windows. Not because it crashes, not because it's buggy and not because it's damn slow. But because it learns bad habits, that are then almost impossible to get rid of. ---- For me the best sentence about it.
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