Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:15:08 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, Latitude <robertjx@ix.netcom.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! - too much about "GUI" Message-ID: <46BB4B9C.5060900@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070809185814.D71656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> <20070809082612.b990026e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070809151022.Y69393@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200708091459.l79ExbIU016932@smtpclu-5.eunet.yu> <20070809185814.D71656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Written by Wojciech Puchar on 08/09/07 12:04>> >> desktop system should be, so FreeBSD with GUI apps _is_ >> -- or can be if you want -- a "perfect desktop system". > > i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and > graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, there are > plenty of nice other wm's good for that. > > i need a productive system, no "graphical user interfaces" etc, that let > me actually concentrate of what i have to do! > > Most of You needs the same, but after years of aggressive > marketing/brainwashing think that "graphical user interfaces", "desktop > environments" etc. are important. > The most stupid but popular claim is that complexity is good. > > this make people work many TIMES slower, both 100% window$ users and > 95-99% unix users. > > all of this is needed to convince people that every 1-2 year they need > new "modern" computer and the old is worth nothing. and people believe > in it. > > their problem, not mine :) My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i was using such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of the user interface ingrained as a measure of the capabilities of the machine. Granted, it could be only because she's ten, but I think we'd find a lot of people think that something has to have more blinky lights and chrome to be better or faster.
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