Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:37:40 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <200209132037.40608.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <007901c25b4d$6f55f970$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209130754.49828.bts@babbleon.org> <007901c25b4d$6f55f970$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Friday 13 September 2002 01:46 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: | > In my opinion, as a server, FreeBSD is a great | > choice. It is fast, reliable, and very well | > built. But as a desktop choice, it leaves a | > little to be desired. | | I agree. FreeBSD makes a much better server than Windows NT/2000, | much easier to use, much less hardware required, runs longer without | problems and has fewer bugs (and it's free too!). However, I would | not run any flavor of UNIX on the desktop. I tried that for a short | time and it was a joke. Clearly, people who run UNIX on the desktop | have little else to do but play with their computers; I could never | afford to dedicate that much time to just getting a system to work. Trying it for a short time was no doubt the problem. Getting X initially configured can be a pain, though it has greatly improved, but once you have it set up it stays set up better and requires less fiddling than Windows in my experience. I will say that the "mount" semantics (requiring that you mount the CD and/or floppy) *are* a real pain for the desktop. But other than that, at this point, I'd say it's superior. The lack of programs, especially games, is the only drawback I can see, and I don't happen to play games, so that's no loss. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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