I remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days… “so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM”.

Back when I used it for a couple years, maybe twenty years ago, it always felt a little broken in many ways. That was long before the whole snap mess. Anyway I never really thought of it as a quality product.

Personally I didn’t even consider switching until I finally quit Destiny 2 for good. If the main game someone plays just doesn’t work, they’re not gonna switch.

I’ve been running Linux as my main system for about 30 yers. During that time I’ve had a Windows partition or disk, on and off purely to run steam. Having to wait an extra thirty seconds to run a game was never an issue. And I could still do my stuff in a comfortable environment (once you’ve gotten used to a Unix desktop, you’ll suffer so much in Windows).

Microsoft access

I wasn’t aware that thing still existed.

Some might think they do. But then very few programs respect the Windows standards, so…

The same reason everybody gives when dealing with pretty much anything: “I don’t want to learn something new”.

It surprises me that there are users like that that haven’t yet gone through some kind of major data loss event. Or maybe they’ve only used a computer for a couple years…

Edit: not those with archives, those with a single disc of course.

Back in the day, it was considered nice to put your geographical coordinates in your DNS record.
Of course, you could also run whois. Even finger. It was fairly different.

Move then buy a bike.

It’s like: “I’d like 5 snow to go, please”
“How much? Ill have you know that in my days, snow just fell from the sky, for free!”
“Stop laughing, it’s true! People even hated it.”

Right. These days, in most of Europe you have to order your snow online and hope it doesn’t melt in transit.

Nipples and foreskin must be removed at birth. To prevent mass hysteria.

Windows didn’t work, linux did.

3.11 and Slackware respectively.

That’s what happens when they train it on bad porn sites.

While all of that is true, the thing is that most people just don’t care. They just use two or three programs (poorly) and don’t really care about the underlying system, never mind the computer. That’s why windows is so entrenched.

affect

Because of universe expansion. (I guess industrialisation also works)

The only thing I can’t find is goto.

There you are then.

Editing lisp with ed is the best way to learn it.

The famous “futur” we were all waiting for.

You may have hear of the future, with flying cars, cities in orbit, everyone living a comfortable life… Like the first steps to the Culture. Not at all. What we have is “the futur”. It was born in the US, as so many dubious things are, and will soon spread all over the globe.