Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Atreyu
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 07:34:00

-=> Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

 At> On 01 Nov 22  19:04:00, Gamgee said the following to Nightfox:

 G> Just a weak attempt at humor.  I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
 G> resist poking at it...  ;-)

 At> You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going
 At> after OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect
 At> between the two.

I'd guess the reason for that is that back then... there wasn't a 
"crowd" of Linux users.  Only a few, perhaps less than the OS/2 crowd.

And please understand, I'm actually *not* a Linux "evangelist".  I use 
it nearly exclusively, but I understand the Windows world and why it 
will continue to exist.  I'm not actively campaigning against it.  ;-)

 At> I was such a stubborn diehard with that silly OS/2 and problems
 At> at the time.

 At> And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking
 At> things just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large
 At> hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and
 At> reinstalling was always out of the question.

I get that, I think.  I have often wondered why I didn't find OS/2 
attractive back then.  Never really even tried it.  I was immersed in 
MSDOS and saw no reason or need to try anything else.  I was even late 
to the Win3 and Win95 parties, although I certainly did use them 
eventually.  Then 98 and even <gasp> WinME, finally XP.  It was about 
then (1998 or so) that I discovered Linux, and over the next 3-4 years 
moved to it completely.  :-)



.... Daddy, what does "now formatting drive C:" mean?
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