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> Unless they found someone who really likes doing this kind of thing? There are more people like that than one might think. There's a sizable community of pe
by kijin 11mo ago
> Unless they found someone who really likes doing this kind of thing?
There are more people like that than one might think.
There's a sizable community of people who still play old video games. There are people who meticulously maintain 100 year old cars, restore 500 year old works of art, and find their passion in exploring 1000 year old buildings.
The HN front page still gets regular posts lamenting loss of the internet culture of the 80s and 90s, trying to bring back what they perceive as lost. I'm sure there are a number of bearded dudes who would commit themselves to keeping an old distro alive, just for the sake of not having to deal with systemd for example.
- bpye 11mo ago> There's a sizable community of people who still play old video games. I went to the effort of reverse engineering part of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 to add a resizeable windowed mode and fix it's behaviour with high poll rate mice... It can definitely be interesting to make old games behave on newer platforms.
- bfkwlfkjf 11mo agoSearch YouTube for "gog noclip documentary", without quotes. Right up your alley.
- throwaway7356 11mo ago> I'm sure there are a number of bearded dudes who would commit themselves to keeping an old distro alive, just for the sake of not having to deal with systemd for example. I don't think so: there are Debian forks that aspire to fight against the horrors of GNOME, systemd, Wayland and Rust, but they don't attract people to work on them.
- bradfa 11mo agoThat there are so many indicates to me the opposite. There are lots of people who want to work on that kind of thing, just they all have slightly different opinions as to which part is the part they’re fighting against, hence so many different forks. The forks are all volunteer projects (except Ubuntu), so having slightly different opinions isn’t considering capitalism as a driving force.
- vladak 11mo agoOne of my colleagues (who has no beard) called this sort of job half jokingly retrocomputing. It has definitely its pros and cons.