Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:54:41 -0400 From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop@gmail.com> To: "'Polytropon'" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: 'Steve Bertrand' <steve@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!! Message-ID: <003601ca1e89$deda1ef0$9c8e5cd0$@com> In-Reply-To: <20090813040701.34245f03.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090812130546.GA3672@marge.bs.l> <4A82C3DD.7040209@ibctech.ca> <002701ca1b59$b3e132c0$1ba39840$@com> <20090813040701.34245f03.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> The average "Windows" user does not read what's on the screen anyway, so > he will always "next". :-) I get the humor, but based on this and your previous remarks regarding Windows, you're not an authority on Windows or its users - average or otherwise. It does FreeBSD a disservice when its supporters slam other platforms and implicitly (and explicitly on occasion) denigrate users of such. > > Since Windows 2000, the > > Setup program allows for deletion of partitions, creating one or more > > new partitions, formatting them, etc. > > Even DOS could do that. That is correct. However, in an earlier message you wrote: >"Usually, any MICROS~1 operating system attempts to completely wipe the disk it wants to install on," That might give the impression that the Setup procedure was inflexible. I assume your use of "MICROS~1" is some sort of clever dig at Microsoft, but this is 2009 - not 1995 - and for the "average Windows user" it's meaningless and confusing. For those who do understand it, they know having 8dot3 filenames was a FEATURE, a benefit of the platform to allow applications that weren't aware of long file names to continue working. Just my thoughts, -Chuck
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