Written by Wojciech Puchar on 08/09/07 12:04>>
desktop system should be, so FreeBSD with GUI apps _is_
-- or can be if you want -- a "perfect desktop system".
i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and
graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, there are
plenty of nice other wm's good for that.
i need a productive system, no "graphical user interfaces" etc, that let
me actually concentrate of what i have to do!
Most of You needs the same, but after years of aggressive
marketing/brainwashing think that "graphical user interfaces", "desktop
environments" etc. are important.
The most stupid but popular claim is that complexity is good.
this make people work many TIMES slower, both 100% window$ users and
95-99% unix users.
all of this is needed to convince people that every 1-2 year they need
new "modern" computer and the old is worth nothing. and people believe
in it.
their problem, not mine :)
My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She saw
my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know why i
was using such an "old" computer. She had the visual aspect of the user
interface ingrained as a measure of the capabilities of the machine.
Granted, it could be only because she's ten, but I think we'd find a lot
of people think that something has to have more blinky lights and chrome
to be better or faster.
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