On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:53:18AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > > You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right? > > Chad, on the "Desktop", I'd rather run the ratware from Redmond than try > FreeBSD! The second choice would be Linusware (not that I know much about > it, but just because "it" seems to support certain aspects which would > otherwise be painful to get to work with FreeBSD). Third option is PC-BSD > (which is what you mean with "better OS"). All my servers run FreeBSD > though. The "better OS" is not so better at the Desktop, hence the choice of > ratware:-)
You clearly have a different opinion of what constitutes a good OS than I have. I prefer a desktop/laptop OS that is stable, reasonably securable, and productivity enhancing. I do not find immense and unnecessary bloat, a fundamentally broken approach to things like privilege separation, and a GUI so pervasively bound to interfere that CPU can spike to near 100% just by moving the mouse across the screen to meet those needs. Perhaps the fact that I use my desktop/laptop systems for things like writing code and articles rather than playing Guild Wars all day colors my perceptions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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