lproven

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by lproven 1y ago
> Your original point seems to be that it's less effort for a Linux distribution to write documentation for shell commands than for them to create a GUI and write the same level of documentation for that GUI, right? Er, no, not at a
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by lproven 1y ago
> I don't know exactly why Microsoft chose to combine a browser and the file explorer. I can tell you. It was clear at the time but that time was 27-28 years back. Microsoft didn't like it when anyone else made big money off th
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by lproven 1y ago
You're right. I would have liked the solution proposed by the Department of Justice's original judge in the 1990s anti-monopoly case, though: to split Microsoft into separate companies: one for apps, one for OSes (maybe with devel
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by lproven 1y ago
> if someone wrote or pointed to a blog that has step by step instructions You still have not answered. That is saddening. Ah well. Here are 2 of my efforts. This is my 1st try for my current employer. I still stand by most of it, though
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by lproven 1y ago
How interesting. I thought it was very poor, myself.
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by lproven 1y ago
I don't know if you're trying to make a rhetorical point here, by giving a sort of worked example of "how to go about this the wrong way and give useless feedback in the form of a complaint." If not... Well, wow, I reall
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by lproven 1y ago
Thanks for that. Yep, I have given my wife an old (but high-spec: i7, 16GB) Dell Latitude with ChromeOS Flex as her desktop. She seems to like it more than the MacBook Pro she had before, because it's simpler. I discovered ChromeOS Fle
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by lproven 1y ago
A man can dream, can't he? ;-)
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by lproven 1y ago
Your comment is correct but it's a response to an entirely different and orthogonal point which I did not propose and wouldn't try to. As such I can answer in several different ways which try to approach the point you're maki
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by lproven 1y ago
Now that is the most interesting question anyone here asked. It looks likely it could take all the big software companies with it, and all the big cloud providers. It may well kill most GPU vendors, most datacentre and hosting companies.
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by lproven 1y ago
I bailed after a few paragraphs when it became apparent that he is a True Believer™ who lacks any real understanding of the tech. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
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by lproven 1y ago
I wonder what OS you were trying. For most, it would be: 1. Open the app or software store 2. Type "spotify" 3. Click "install" If it doesn't, then it's not a distro for non-techie end-users.
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by lproven 1y ago
There are 2 things here to note which explain why. * Most distros offer multiple desktops. This is true of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, etc. Point-and-click instructions are limited to only 1 desktop. Shell instructions work on a
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by lproven 1y ago
There are literally hundreds of them. What do you need? What do you want?
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by lproven 1y ago
> Do any other companies do the same? Important relevant note: Some companies offer "DOS" or "FreeDOS" computers. This is notably common in poorer countries. These commonly do not really run DOS . They run a very old
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by lproven 1y ago
> a wrapper around the web app All Electron apps are.
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by lproven 1y ago
I'd argue 2017: that was the year Chromebooks first outsold Macs in the USA. (I know, the fanboys and penguin Taliban will rage that ChromeOS is not the True Linux, etc., but ignore them.) Two things are non-obvious about this info. 1.
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by lproven 1y ago
Why should I care? I wasn't interested in drawing pictures or playing games. I was interested in exploring programming on something that wasn't as horribly constrained as my previous machines -- 3 different Z80 powered boxes. (Sin
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by lproven 1y ago
Nice one. That's the year before I bought my first. I thought it was a superb deal up against things like the Amiga and ST, because it was much faster and more capable for a hobby programmer. And in the first job I had, my 2nd hand A31
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WDC's unreleased W65C832 (32-bit 6502) CPU implemented in an FPGA(github.com)
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by lproven 1y ago
> an American fire hydrant or school bus So much this. The first time one asked me to click on "crosswalks", I genuinely had to think for a while as I struggled to remember WTF a "crosswalk" was in AmEng. I am a nativ
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by lproven 1y ago
I agree. It's not really what you're asking, but I know of two Linux desktops that are based around GNUSTEP. NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace -- primarily targets CentOS GSDE: https:/
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by lproven 1y ago
A little bit of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938499
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by lproven 1y ago
I agree about the virtues of the kit. I owned several Archies and loved them. But the goal of a company is to survive, sell stuff, and make money. One division of Acorn survives, makes money, and dominates the industry, and the A in its nam
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by lproven 1y ago
Sort of. Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber
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by lproven 1y ago
I am not sure what your point is here. You miscategorize most of the lines in this list. > Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were 16-bit 68000 chips. And the Mac which outsold both in the long run. You missed: Sinclair QL -- also a MC 680x0.
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by lproven 1y ago
> The Amiga and ST wiped the floor with it. And yet... Do you own a smartphone of any kind? It has an Acorn-compatible CPU inside it. In fact, if it isn't 20+ years old, it has several: it has a multicore main CPU with several diffe
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by lproven 1y ago
> For whatever reason, Acorn dropped the ball. Acorn's CPU division is the most successful CPU design house in the world and sells around 10x more than all forms of Intel and Intel-compatible chips put together. It was named after i
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by lproven 1y ago
> modern x86 has very little in common with the 8088. It is directly binary compatible. A Core i7 can boot and run MS-DOS from the 8088. I offer a freebie DOS distro for modern PCs: https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
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by lproven 1y ago
> I don't recall the Archimedes ever getting called a "BBC Micro" Pictures: https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/A3000.... Note the logo at top right of the keyboard. Also note the b

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