Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:36:20 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <23506402.20050212033620@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <420D669A.20000@incubus.de> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <420D669A.20000@incubus.de>
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Matthias Buelow writes: > MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works > better than anything else at being a "desktop". Considering the sorry > state of integrated "desktops" on Unix today (i.e., Gnome and KDE) and > compare it with Windows, do you really think that will convince any > Windows user? Windows really is bad enough already, why should they > change for a much worse user interface. For those of us that have been > using X11 with various window managers for the last decade or more, that > isn't an issue -- we're used to a different way of working, but those > Windows types expect quite different things, which they'll only find in > MacOS, outside of Windows, for the forseeable future. Yes! So it's best to forget the battles one has lost, and concentrate on the battles that one can still win. -- Anthony
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