Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:09:44 -0700 From: JD <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless interface Message-ID: <5C4CE8B8.4030608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190126213957.adfeb61c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAPu-kW-0u=Eoj8NtASnD_WDnsosj_WcTEh=Zhby1DnBV3d2rdg@mail.gmail.com> <MWHPR04MB04954E8E691D98C40B68607780940@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> <20190126213957.adfeb61c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 01/26/2019 01:39 PM, Polytropon wrote: > 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. :-) > > IMHO, today, there are no OS'es available to the public, sans backdoors, spyware and other malware. Just my $.02's worth.
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