You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I am imagining GMH trying to run Windows 3.1 on a modern Intel i7 with some absurd amount of RAM and it's quite an amusing mental image.
To answer the question: Windows 7 or 10, some kind of Linux (no particular preference, though I'd like Xfce as my desktop environment), or FreeBSD.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Not 3.2, that weird obscure version that was only ever released in Chinese?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.
(oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)
An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.
An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.
Why don't you have to switch partitions?
Because most games are released on Mac now too, as compared to the days of yore when literally everything was PC-exclusive.
An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.
Why don't you have to switch partitions?
Because most games are released on Mac now too, as compared to the days of yore when literally everything was PC-exclusive.
Oh, that.
Yeah, most of my games are Windows exclusives.
(That said I'm more likely to switch to Linux so I'd probably care more about Linux compatibility...)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
(oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)
anything he wrote after 2006 or so isn't worth reading because by then he just started ranting about things he disliked instead of properly reviewing desktop user interfaces
(oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)
anything he wrote after 2006 or so isn't worth reading because by then he just started ranting about things he disliked instead of properly reviewing desktop user interfaces
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I guess he doesn't put dates on his stuff
But anything from Windows Vista onward is just him ranting about how much he hates Microsoft
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also depending on how we'd define "computer" I'll also say Android 5 or later
I haven't tried Android 6 yet, but if it's anything like Android 5 I'm sure I'd like it
IRL my smartphone is still stuck on Android 4.4 but oh well
Marshmallow is functionally a more stable version of Lollipop with a couple small new features and one big feature that only sometimes works, so if you're a fan of the latter you'd probably be just fine with the former.
But anything from Windows Vista onward is just him ranting about how much he hates Microsoft
yup...his Windows 10 "review" comes dangerously close to being Complaining About OSes You Haven't Used (just so he can dunk on Microsoft some more like it's still the goddamn 1990s :P)
Microsoft may still be huge and greedy, but they're not the only game in town like they used to be.
he sounds less like a serious tech writer and more like the sorts of people who used to be like LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY AMIGA. Or the alt.destroy.microsoft types who wanted either Microsoft or Bill Gates himself to be tortured gruesomely.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can't tell whether toastytech actually likes any OS, TBH.
He praises most of the original Mac OS stuff and he talks about Windows 95 with a sort of begrudging respect
It's just that he wants computers to still work the way they did in 1996 and it leads to asinine things like complaining that the Windows calendar app won't work if you don't give it account credentials or getting pissy at UAC for not allowing all executables admin privileges by default like XP did.
To be fair, UAC is a tremendous pain in the ass if you're a developer. It'll randomly turn on even after you fully disable it, lock you out of source control files for no reason (I've had to contact my IT admin more than once, and at one point it locked him out too), and heaven forbid you're trying to program installers that actually need admin access.
I can't tell whether toastytech actually likes any OS, TBH.
He praises most of the original Mac OS stuff and he talks about Windows 95 with a sort of begrudging respect
It's just that he wants computers to still work the way they did in 1996 and it leads to asinine things like complaining that the Windows calendar app won't work if you don't give it account credentials or getting pissy at UAC for not allowing all executables admin privileges by default like XP did.
This is actually one of my big pet peeves. I've seen people who've gotten all pissy that the aforementioned LISP machines didn't win out, I've seen people who've complained mightily that we didn't keep improving on Mac System 7 or Mac OS 8/9 and make it into something like unto the LISP machines or the old Burroughs systems, and all these people seem to haaaaaaaaate Unix, too (well, Unix as it was in the 1980s and early 1990s, anyway, since a lot of these rants were written 15-20 years ago). Anyone still believing that we can't make a decent system—even a Unix-based one!—with a decent UI, no required command line usage and instant on/off hasn't used a smartphone or a tablet recently.
(Seriously, it's weird how many of these One True OS projects seem to want to reimplement either Genera or the Burroughs B5000. I wonder if they even know about Java. Or Squeak, for that matter, since that seems to be closer to the "1980s OO workstation" feel they're after.)
Anyway, my point is, it seems like people get so mad about short-term concerns or their own pet peeves that they just can't see the forest for the trees anymore. Things do work out in the end, even if it takes a while to get there.
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Yeah, most of my games are Windows exclusives.
(That said I'm more likely to switch to Linux so I'd probably care more about Linux compatibility...)
Maybe Xubuntu circa 2011 as well if performance is a concern.
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