Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:21:52 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user-opinion poll?! [was: Would this be useful?] Message-ID: <20040421162152.GA2088@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040421110304.GE2638@pleiades.aeternal.net> References: <4085F03F.4050904@pacific.net.sg> <20040421091343.GB1051@isis.wad.cz> <20040421110304.GE2638@pleiades.aeternal.net>
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# corwin@aeternal.net / 2004-04-21 13:03:04 +0200:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:13:43AM +0200 or thereabouts, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > This is the point where their route to FreeBSD ends.
> >
> > I don't have to imagine being a Windows user as I *was* one,
> > and I wanted to try FreeBSD (4.0 at that time). All I got was that
> > handbook. Unix just looked all greek to me.
> >
> > That was the point where my route to FreeBSD began.
> > Or did you mean a *dumb* Windows user?
>
> There is nothing like "dumb windows user".. they have their Windows and
> they are happy, cause Windows and its bunch of software is everything
> they need to be satisfied.
Are all windows users smart? That doesn't look very likely from the
statistics point of view. Note that I didn't assert *all* windows
users were dumb. There are smart people, there are dumb people, and
both groups use computers, both groups use Windows. I'm not going to
pretend it is not so.
I remember a post on questions@ in which someone reported this
problem: he tried to install FreeBSD several times, but all attempts
failed; the thing rebooted the computer, and left him with a screen
of crap ending with "Login:", which he couldn't get past because it
insisted he must give it some password (he had no idea what
password).
Now, I of course don't know/remember whether the person was a
Windows user, for what it's worth he could be completely new to
computers. It doesn't matter. The post suggested the person wasn't
particularly inteligent. I don't want the project to cater for such
people.
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