filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

[Yuval Levy]

Matthias Buelow wrote:

>I don't understand this "we need to compete with Windows on the desktop"
>thing. I've never considered Windows to be particularly useful as a
>desktop environment, why should the Unix systems compete with it?
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You don't need to compete with Windows. You want to compete against 
yourself, and improve your own results to become even better. Usability 
is a count on which FreeBSD has weaknesses, especially in the eye of the 
large segment of users who value a GUI, i.e. those coming from the 
Windows world.

For as much as I'd like to get rid of Windows on the desktop, I still 
find myself spending 80% of my time with it... even now, although I am 
using Thunderbird, available on many OS. The reason is that there is 
often this one or two application that drive the decision, in this case 
<http://www.ptgui.com> which is not available under other platforms 
(yes, there are alternatives but I have not had time to look into them 
yet) and Adobe Photoshop, which I could run on a Mac OSX, but I'd have 
to spend money on overpriced hardware I do not want.

>[And btw., please let's move this discussion to -advocacy, since it
>doesn't really belong on this list.]
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Agree with you, the FreeBSD vs. Windows belongs in advocacy. In my 
opinion the original topic of the thread still belongs where it was started.

Yuv