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I miss genuine differences in hardware. Happy hour discussions about alpha vs sparc vs intel etc. I'm hopeful that diversity will come back around as a thing.
by geocrasher 5y ago
I miss genuine differences in hardware. Happy hour discussions about alpha vs sparc vs intel etc. I'm hopeful that diversity will come back around as a thing.
THIS. Right now there are three mainstream choices: Win, Linux, Mac And I'm sorry- no matter how diverse your Linux distro is or even what hardware you're running it on (x86 vs ARM etc), it's still just Linux. And again, sorry- Linux just isn't interesting anymore. Extremely useful for its purpose, but it's commonplace enough to be ho-hum.
Can anyone recommend something quite a bit different that a guy could toy with? Or is this why everyone is having so much fun with 8 bit retrocomputers?
- kstrauser 5y agoA lot of people around me are playing with Plan 9 these days, but I haven’t paused to figure out why yet.
- rewgs 5y agoIt's hip.
- flyinghamster 5y agoHaiku OS, maybe? It is under active development. https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ But a key problem with alternative OSes is that if you want to use them as daily drivers, your software choices may be limited or nonexistent. Haiku, for instance, has a WebKit-based browser, but no Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, or Safari.
- geocrasher 5y agoI'm more interested in exotic or uncommon hardware than software.