Subj : Re: Computer operating system of choice?
To   : Oli
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Feb 08 2022 02:07:26

 Ol> They are all kind of frustrating when I think about it. Windows is
 Ol> annoying as hell. MacOS depends on Apple hardware (I used my PC as a
 Ol> Hackintosh, but I guess it's too old now for a recent MacOS). In Linux
 Ol> there are too many distributions (with their own incomplete or partially
 Ol> outdated repositories). Ubuntu was great and went to shit. Gnome was
 Ol> great and is now pissing on every desktop environments that use GTK as a
 Ol> foundation and doesn't want to be Gnome 4. The stuff that makes your
 Ol> Linux booting and running is getting more and more bloated, more
 Ol> complicated and featureful and is forever changing, just because they
 Ol> can ... I haven't tried one of the BSDs on the desktop.
 Ol> 
 Ol> Other alternative OSes (old or new) are missing important software, like
 Ol> a decent browser. Maybe decent is the wrong word. I mean a browser that
 Ol> can cope with the shitty web of the 2020s. And hardware support is also
 Ol> often a problem.
 Ol> 
 Ol> Let's wait another 20 years until HaikuOS will be released or Plan 9
 Ol> usable or OS/2 open sourced an revived or ...

Yeah, Linux is more complex now than it was 20 years ago when I started.  I miss simplicity, when you could comprehend all that was going on.  Browsers are too complex for humans to work on now.  Part of the reason I like BBS's, because writing a telnet client is still within the realm of possibilities for most coders and small groups.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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