Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 02.06.12 10:21, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 01.06.2012, 13:56 -0400 schrieb Michael R. Wayne:
>> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:03:26AM -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>>> If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please
>>> list those areas with most important first to least important last ?
>> As mentioned by several others, once you have a single applicaiton
>> that demands Windows, you are mostly stuck running windows.
> I was used to thinking the same way, but today there is VirtualBox and
> it does very well. More simple applications work fine using wine, that
> keeps you from having to install a complete Windows-OS.

I want to second this. For me, until recently the only Windows computer 
was an laptop. I was thinking along the same lines (being primary BSD 
UNIX for everything for over 20 years) - if you need Windows software, 
run it on Windows. But, I was more and more pissed of this stuff and 
eventually brought myself an Macbook. Never touched the Windows laptop 
ever since. Any "windows only" software that comes across, of any kind, 
runs in VirtualBox on either FreeBSD or OS X. No issues of any kind.