From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 23 15:45:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5B137B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C57B43EA3 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAO0pK814866; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:51:21 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id D8B821F31; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:45:08 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:45:08 -0600 From: dmk To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <20021123234508.GF11676@over-yonder.net> References: <200211232029.gANKTOs50088@flip.jhs.private> <02d701c29337$08749e60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02d701c29337$08749e60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moving to -chat, for the sake of my blood pressure... Anthony Atkielski said something like: > Julian writes: > > > Expanded Reality ;-) > > UNIX is a poor choice for the intellectually > > lazy, or incompetent; Usually than 50% of PC > > users are intellectually lazy, or incompetent; > > So UNIX is a poor choice for these people's desktop. > > The last statement is true. The previous two are not. Prove it. > Your disdain for people who happen not to share your interests or obsessions > is an excellent illustration of precisely the attitude that impedes the > advocacy of operating systems such as UNIX. Are you sure the impediment is not your cluttering the -advocacy list with this clearly far off-topic thread? > One reason FreeBSD and many other > operating systems remain only marginally present in many environments is > that their primary supporters are socially na?ve and gratuitously aggressive > young males. Oh? Prove it. > Worry not ... no mass migration from Microsoft operating systems to FreeBSD > is likely in the foreseeable future; and even if all other obstacles were > overcome to such a migration, the attitudes of people like yourself would > still prevent it. You say that like it's a bad thing. > > Dumb fumble & click lazy losers are best left > > to their MS rip off prices, bootlegs, viruses > > & crashes. > > See above. > > 6500 ported FreeBSD packages inc. many window > > managers gives a wide choice of desktops ... > > People don't want a wide choice of desktops. They just want a machine that > does the job, and then they're done. I use FreeBSD because it does the job. > If any of them are reading this thread, I'm sure you've scared them off > pretty effectively--more so than I can realistically counter with my own > meager dose of unemotional rationality, I'm afraid. Forgive me, for this last line caused me to snicker. Thank you for the entertainment, Anthony. dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message