please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

Charles Oppermann chuckop at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 15:54:48 UTC 2009


> The average "Windows" user does not read what's on the screen anyway, so
> he will always "next". :-)

I get the humor, but based on this and your previous remarks regarding
Windows, you're not an authority on Windows or its users - average or
otherwise.

It does FreeBSD a disservice when its supporters slam other platforms and
implicitly (and explicitly on occasion) denigrate users of such.

> > Since Windows 2000, the
> > Setup program allows for deletion of partitions, creating one or more
> > new partitions, formatting them, etc.
> 
> Even DOS could do that.

That is correct.  However, in an earlier message you wrote:

>"Usually, any MICROS~1 operating system attempts to completely wipe the
disk it wants to install on,"

That might give the impression that the Setup procedure was inflexible.

I assume your use of "MICROS~1" is some sort of clever dig at Microsoft, but
this is 2009 - not 1995 - and for the "average Windows user" it's
meaningless and confusing.  For those who do understand it, they know having
8dot3 filenames was a FEATURE, a benefit of the platform to allow
applications that weren't aware of long file names to continue working.

Just my thoughts,
-Chuck



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