Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:39:57 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless interface Message-ID: <20190126213957.adfeb61c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <MWHPR04MB04954E8E691D98C40B68607780940@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> References: <CAPu-kW-0u=Eoj8NtASnD_WDnsosj_WcTEh=Zhby1DnBV3d2rdg@mail.gmail.com> <MWHPR04MB04954E8E691D98C40B68607780940@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:50:53 +0000, Carmel NY wrote: > Plus, you then have to install a GUI. Now, if you > want to compare a FreeBSD system sans GUI, you have to compare it > against a MS Server, not the regular Windows version design for home or > office users. Your comparison of "Windows 10" vs. FreeBSD is also unfair. You'd better compare it to a FreeBSD-based preinstalled and preconfigured system, such as TrueOS (ex PC-BSD), where you get a GUI and a set of common applications in the normal install. Plus you do _not_ get spyware preinstalled. ;-) You also are not urged to register an account with a US-based company, which is a win in itself. Always remember that there are many people who are willing to provide confidential information for no good reason to any computer program or web page that asks for it. "The computer should know what it's doing. If it says, 'enter your PIN here', I enter my PIN here. I have nothing to hide. And I want to see the dancing elephants for free." ;-) > This is not about "hand-holding"; it is about bring the OS into the > modern age. My machine is supposed to be my slave, not the other way > around. This is very interesting: You consider a "Windows"-based computer still a PC, a _personal_, YOUR _personal_ computer? Especially with the consumer-enabled background updating processes (good _and_ bad at the same time), system changes are very often a surprise for users, and in most cases, it's the kind of "it doesn't work anymore" kind of surprise... "Windows" might be okay for certain cases, as long as it works. But as soon as something does not work, or stops working, you have nearly no on-board diagnostic means. You can hope that the next update will make the printer work again, or that if you delete and re-install the scanner driver, the scanner will work again. But you don't know for sure. Hope is what you need. FreeBSD, on the other hand, allows you to find out by yourself what might be wrong. Its ability to break down obscure and closed processes like "connect to a WLAN", which is in fact a quite complex process, makes it far easier to debug things. Just a few independent thoughts. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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