From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 28 23:47:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2253133 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from relay00.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.5.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 682D9B09 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30021 invoked by uid 0); 28 Mar 2013 23:46:53 -0000 Received: from 173.48.104.62 (HELO ?10.2.2.1?) (173.48.104.62) by relay00.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2013 23:46:53 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 173.48.104.62 Message-ID: <5154D66D.5090407@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:46:53 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Belyea Subject: Re: References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:47:01 -0000 > I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't > play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some > EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's really aimed more at servers... a lot of common desktopy things aren't covered well. Based on the wording of your question it sounds like you're new to non-windows systems. I'd suggest you look into some flavor of linux instead (eg; "ubuntu" or "mint"): they'll be geared more towards what you'd be looking for I think. ______________________________________ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal