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by Crinus 7y ago
After Oblivion, Bethesda's games become sandbox themeparks where you can do a lot of stuff with little substance while chipping away any RPG mechanics. I think Oblivion's success despite its shortcomings on the RPG side gave them
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by Crinus 7y ago
Does this run on raspberry pi? E.g. could i get a rpi4 (which seems powerful enough), connect it to my router and install this on it?
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by Crinus 7y ago
Does closing your account also mean you lose your money or they give it to you somehow?
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah, GPD's handheld PCs are IMO better than these ARM-based computers since they are (mostly) regular x86 PCs in tiny size and i can run my existing x86/x64 applications and games with them (of which i have thousands). Though whe
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Good riddance to x86/x64 once someone makes an ARM core capable of current Ryzen performance and attaches a runtime binary translator to it. What you expect to happen: developers will target fastARM for new code and users will use
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by Crinus 7y ago
Interesting list, just learned about OE Classic (Outlook Express remake). Too bad it seems that it is the only alternative to the discontinued software in that list.
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by Crinus 7y ago
.desktop files are just the equivalent to Windows .lnk files, if anything they can contain additional metadata. The issue is the DEs that use them (and not all are of the same bad quality). If anything i'd say that .desktop files are a
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by Crinus 7y ago
Software that actually works of course, but that only happens with stable APIs, ABIs and certainly not with removing them no matter how planned and preannounced that might be (both because most will ignore things since what they do already
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by Crinus 7y ago
There is no such thing as "every day user" though, every user is different and if anything a major source of those UX issues people have is "designers" who come up with imaginary "every day users" (usually to j
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by Crinus 7y ago
- Paint Shop Pro 7 (the last good version and one of the easiest and snappiest image editors IMO)
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Stable consistent APIs don't help lock-in I do not think this is true, Windows has a lock-in on desktop explicitly because it has a stable API that allowed it to amass a huge library of software that keeps people relying on it to
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by Crinus 7y ago
I doubt age has anything to do with it (unless you imply younger people prefer shitty interfaces) since Reddit's new site is awful even on mobile. I always switch to i.reddit.com not only because it is much faster, but also because t
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by Crinus 7y ago
...and cause applications using them to stop working.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Has not being able to install Windows XP on a modern machine left you bitter...? Yes. The topic at hand is how newer software can screw things after all, which causes people to want to stick to older versions. The same applies with Win
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I don't understand how the "modern" Windows start menu works they introduced in Win 8 I think. The current start menu was introduced in Windows 10 though even the initial 10 version was a bit different. Windows 8 had a &
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW Windows - or at least the HWND parts - is also an object oriented API, it is just closer to something like Smalltalk (which i guess was more popular at the time) than C++. You still define a class with a message handler on it, create i
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by Crinus 7y ago
AFAIK WTL is still being developed as an open source project by the same main developer who originally made it.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Most modern frameworks provide more functionality than raw Win32, such as automatic layout management and most of those are also cross-platform. People use those frameworks because of those features and/or need to be cross-platform, no
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by Crinus 7y ago
Right, this is why i explicitly said "the OS/2 GUI (Presentation Manager) API" and not the entirety of OS/2. The original comment mentioned "was there any better GUI programming layers" after all.
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by Crinus 7y ago
So you'll not only need to know all these sublanguages (epochs) but also how they interact with each other, especially when you need to refactor code that needs to cross these "epoch boundaries" (refactor the functionality no
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by Crinus 7y ago
I wonder how exactly will those WinUI (or UWP GUI) APIs will be used in practice though. The vast majority of applications that still use Win32 do it through some sort of framework (be it wxWidgets, MFC, VCL/LCL, etc) that has specific
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm pretty sure it is the other way around, the OS/2 GUI (Presentation Manager) API is a cleaned up version of the Windows 2.x API.
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by Crinus 7y ago
While Microsoft Works has been discontinued, you should still be able to run it in modern Windows (which is what backwards compatibility is about - Office is a totally different product, after all).
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Backwards compatibility isn’t as important to me as shit just working. Backwards compatibility is about shit working! You can't have that when a program you want to use stops working because the OS broke backwards compatibility.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that if you decide to use MFC you still need to know Win32. A common misconception and source of frustration about MFC is that it is a layer over Win32 or that it somehow replaces it, which is not the case and if you (royal you here)
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by Crinus 7y ago
For the latter here is a working VM/layer partially based on Wine: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm It can be installed systemwide to get almost seamless support for 16bit Windows apps.
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by Crinus 7y ago
If there is anyone who'd think "screw those filthy Mac lovers" that would be Apple themselves since it is they who are in a position to preserve backwards compatibility and yet they decide to not do so.
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by Crinus 7y ago
There is no technical reason (in that they could technically keep 32bit support) for Apple to drop 32bit support since the x86 CPUs they rely on support them - i've heard that there were some architectural reasons with Cocoa (i think)
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by Crinus 7y ago
Can you elaborate on that last part?
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Texinfo Note that Texinfo was originally meant to generate output for the info file format (viewed by the GNU info viewer as well as GNU emacs and a few other less used viewers) alongside TeX, which is probably where it got its name (t

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