Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:55 am Post
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:27 am Post
garpu wrote:That having been said, why are the choices in this thread only OS X, iOS, or Windows? Why should my "not-mac" choice be Windows? Why is my "not-Windows" choice Mac? PCs run more operating systems than Windows. I wouldn't mind seeing a return to the early 90's or so: there seemed to be so much more innovation, and everyone had an OS and system out.
Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:42 pm Post
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:16 pm Post
garpu wrote:Hrm. My response wasn't intended to be an OS war. It's deeper than that.
Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:34 pm Post
garpu wrote:Hrm. My response wasn't intended to be an OS war. It's deeper than that.
Remember when schools first got computers? For us, it was the Apple IIE (PR#6!) There was this shiny sense of newness, of possibility. Then when computers had a graphical interface, it was as if this huge frontier had opened. Now? I don't get that sense of wonder anymore. If you think "Apple" or "Windows," you have a real good idea of what they brand, even down to the smell in the boxes (for Apple). there's nothing new anymore, know what I mean? (Well, perhaps the 3D chocolate printer. I want one of those.)
Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:02 pm Post
BeOS and Brownies
Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:31 pm Post
All those millions and trazzillions of, "Are you sures...?? jeeezz!! gorranedache now!garpu wrote: http://haiku-os.org/
Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:47 pm Post
xiamenese wrote:
Since then, although I still have hankerings to go back to LaTeX, and read the MMD forum with interest, I value my time, even when procrastinating, and an operating system that just gets out of the way and gets on with it is what I want. Windows doesn't do that for me ... and in various employs and circumstances I've had to use Windows, and I've always found it frustrating. Maybe it's because the Mac system has become ingrained. I certainly don't want, as an early contributor to the Linux thread said she wouldn't want to be without, "a system that I have to beat into submission". I read the forum, thinking, perhaps I should move over to Linux, it'd be like back to my Unix and Emacs days ... and then I see what you're all having to deal with with your various distros and think "No, I don't want that!"
But then, on the other side, there are those like me who have had some contact with computers since they became generally available — no I didn't have a Spectrum, a Commodore 64, an Amiga, my own BBC Micro ... and no, I've never learnt to program as I've had no need — but I do feel I understand a bit about what's going on under the hood.
Mark
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:35 am Post
brookter wrote:And I just don't understand how people can't be fascinated by computers. But then, I don't understand how they can't be fascinated by history and physics and rugby and languages and golf, either, or why they apparently think that football is interesting. How strange...
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