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Ah, yes, the Platform[1] platform, the one that uses DLLs and the PE executable format :) [1]: https://github.com/fabiensanglard/dc/blob/1b9cbd081fcc5304881550

• intelVISA 3y ago
  Ahh I think know that one actually. EEE Platform right? Candy crush main menu? Don't think people use it willingly these days...
  • rcoveson 3y ago
    Between Stockholm syndrome, sunk-cost fallacy, and the psychological inertia of arguing repeatedly on the Internet in the 2000's that it was more 1337 than the Macintosh, it's hard to tell what "willing" even means in that context. May as well try to figure out if people who drink alcohol do so "willingly".
  • delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
    > Don't think people use it willingly these days I do. There isn't a viable competitor to productivity tools like Office 365 (and no, LibreOffice and Thunderbird, while decent, do not cut it), ease of gaming (I'd rather play games natively, than fiddle with Wine), HiDPI support, PowerShell, Visual Studio (sue me: it's better than gcc + painful array of binutils + perf), etc. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome, but I have Arch installed too (on its own dedicated drive to boot), and I use it a lot less than I do Platform™.
    • intelVISA 3y ago
      Well put. I guess in retrospect: I too use the Platform™ willingly, it is quite fun to RE :)
• heinrich5991 3y ago
  Three different pull requests were opened to fix this typo already, presumably in response to this Hacker News post.