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Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows

Posted by michael on from the painful-experiences dept.

uninet writes "Most people know what GNU/Linux is, but fewer know about BSD and fewer still have actually used one of the major BSD variants (other than the highly customized Mac OS X). Ed Hurst, a writer and a long time GNU/Linux user, decided to give FreeBSD a try. Will Ed join the ranks of happy FreeBSD users? Find out at OfB.biz." And our own Roblimo, Windows-free for five years, has spent a week learning Windows XP.

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  1. Worst Article Ever by Pave+Low · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    That article by Roblimo was one of the most awful articles I've ever seen posted to slashdot.

    It was nothing but a pandering, self-serving, condescending, piece of garbage.

    This supposed look at XP is more about rants with IE and OE and other apps, which is not part of the OS. If you don't like IE, go and use Mozilla or any other broswer, XP isn't stopping you from doing so.

    His closing remarks expressing "sympathy" for Windows users is so smug and arrogant. What kind of person of who would switch to Linux would take that shit seriously?

    And slashdotters complain about "M$", microserfs, or whatever cute names..where are the slashdotters to come out against this mindless zealotry?

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  2. What a whiney "review" by Camarones · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ugh.. I barely made it through Roblimo's "review".. its nothing more than a compilation of bitching and moaning, with a little reinforcement of his laziness as a user.

    Its not hard to figure out how to disable windows messenger, or add icons to the taskbar. Do what you would expect any Linux user do, RTFM, or google it.

  3. Re:My own experience from No Windows to XP... by Blocked+By+Sand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know, only dead fish follow the currents...

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