OS Rant Mode
Posted: August 21st, 2005FreeBSD 4.11 didn’t boot after I installed it… well, it booted it just said some stuff and didn’t work or something… it was too late in the morning for me to care. I probably could’ve got it working (or maybe not) but I wasnt in the mood so I just removed it and now my laptop only has Windows XP and Ubuntu. I’m getting less and less tolerant of crappy software. And by crappy I mean software that either doesn’t work, is a pain or is simply made with a “screw you user!” attitude. Have you looked at the OpenBSD installer? It’s stuck in the 19th century or something. It’s ugly and totaly user-hostile. just look at part of it (from the openbsd install guide or whatever it’s called):
fdisk: 1> e 1
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S – C H S [ start: size ]
————————————————————————
1: 00 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
Partition id (’0′ to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help) a6
Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n] y
BIOS Starting cylinder [0 - 2585]: [0] 203
BIOS Starting head [0 - 239]: [0] Enter
BIOS Starting sector [1 - 63]: [0] 1
BIOS Ending cylinder [0 - 2585]: [0] 2585
BIOS Ending head [0 - 239]: [0] 239
BIOS Ending sector [1 - 63]: [0] 63
fdisk:*1> p
Disk: wd0 geometry: 2586/240/63 [39100320 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
How much worse can it possibly get? OpenBSD developers have made an amazing job with the security features of th OS and it’s stable but the rest just sucks. And while there is a point to what they are doing would it really hurt to make it a bit more user friendly?
Ok Ok gonna end this pointless rant now.
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