Posts by NorthwestEagle 2 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jan 2024
This is great and all, but unfortunately many of the programs I use on a day to day basis are trapped on the Windows platform. Poser, Visual Studio (more specifically, C#), Bryce and Melody Assistant have no equivalent Linux versions.
I despise Windows 11, and I can't run it anyway (despite having a well running Xeon and 32GB of RAM, Microsoft demands that I buy a new PC instead), so I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place at this point in time.
With all due respect, I feel like this article does a disservice to the vast array of innovation that's happened over the course of the decades.
As a child of the 80s, I was there to experience firsthand the world evolve and turn into something unimaginable outside of scifi.
In 1993, I was a kid. The Super Nintendo was the peak of entertainment and a decent TV was around 25 inches, weighed fifty pounds and still cost hundreds. Hardly anyone had a cell phone, and the ones that were out there were damned expensive and did very little except play a mean game of Snake.
The Internet was a thing the vast majority of us were completely unfamiliar with. Those of us that had an online service like AOL and CompuServe did it from dedicated machines plugged into a landline phone. If you had a 56k modern you were at the top of the heap.
Futuristic shows like Star Trek had us controlling our devices with our voices.
Today we live in a world where we can control every device in our homes with a word. We carry around the Internet in our *pocket*, on devices more powerful than the supercomputers of 93 could dream about. We hang 75 inch televisions on our wall, and we explore virtual game worlds vast and innumerable. With even inexpensive hardware we can create and share our works and explore our world. We have constantly updating maps of wherever we might want to go right at our fingertips.
Think about how many people are reading this article at this very moment. How are they doing it?
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