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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: Significant words in Theo's interview
From:       Marina Brown <marina () surferz ! net>
Date:       2001-11-29 6:19:08
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Lars Hansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 07:51, Gordon Grieder wrote:
> > Conversely, why then is Windows such a big seller? 
> 
Because it is designed for people who are visually oriented.

I find it EXTREMLY difficult to work with windows because i
am WORD oriented.

I find windows EXTREMLY user UNFRIENDLY. Why would
anyone want to LOOK for GRAPHICAL settings when you can
simply edit a textfile ?

...But i guess a lot of people would rather search through multiple
levels of menus for some icon !

I hate having multiple levels of abstraction insulating me from the
working of ANYTHING i use. I get the source code with OpenBSD.

When i look in /usr/include/sys in my linux box i am frustrated by the
many many #includes in the system headers.

I am not frustrated in this way when i look in /usr/include/sys in a
BSD box. Things are easy for me to find.

I might not feel this way if i was an Assembler programmer, but i'm a
C and shell programmer.

                               Marina Brown

P.S. I even miss the old time text based BBS's that used to be
everywhere !

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right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too 
anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the 
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