SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Sat Feb 12 02:36:22 GMT 2005


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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