* Posts by SuchObvious

5 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2024

How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT

SuchObvious

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

Except that Windows was made for business purposes, obviously, since it does have the IBM heritage. Macs were, in fact, better for running Photoshop back then. 3 people made money doing that. All the others I knew lost $10,000 buying stuff that they never got paid off. And now, there's nothing a mac or linux box does for an average user than a PC doesn't do better for still way way less money. And no, you aren't going to install Linux on your non-technical household type users. They just want to play a game on a PC. I don't need unix or a mac to run The Sims.

SuchObvious

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

There are two reasons I never liked Apple, both of which were valid from the first Apple machine to now. 1) There is nothing intuitive about the Mac, or for that matter, anything Apple. 2) I could never afford it. I go for power and bang for the buck. Pretty is nice, but I need bang for the buck.

SuchObvious

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

Windows and Linux were both installed from stacks of floppies. I used to shut my machine off and move the IDE cable from my Windows hard drive to my Linux hard drive. Then I guess I finally only had to reboot using lilo, which was very nice, and choose which OS. In about 1997 I was installing various OSs on Cartridge drives and would boot up whichever I was testing by changing the cartridges. Not the zip drives, but the bigger ones.

SuchObvious

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

It was great. And it still is. When I die, Windows will still be the dominant operating system, as it has been for most of my life. MacOS and Linux (actually, a variant of Unix) are also good for what they are good for.

SuchObvious

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

They are all just Operating Systems, not religions or philosophies. Though, they are certainly more valuable to me than a religion, none are worth fighting over. I just use them as needed.