Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Workstation Aesthetics Date: 10 Jun 2024 13:43:23 GMT Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <9s645j1pehkhdkc7kjj3hbp2nnu93c4mfc@4ax.com> <1OY5O.3643$zfC8.897@fx35.iad> <665c66eb$0$3738365$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6660a10b$0$3738362$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66630005$2$3738365$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mUpjXDkY0HSx1QwQDcSCTQnARjNqRDlJidyhNwKYbdmG0zUvJ2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jFV/X/C3O2ZB+rDdG7q37n19/ho= sha256:KVUFR0t9h5tdoGN/Us/zX14xkqI+7pXA7WuV6bo2Cfc= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.159 (Vovchansk; 764d7cd; Linux-6.9.3) Bytes: 3837 > On 2024-06-10 8:28 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: >> >>> On 2024-06-07 8:41 a.m., DFS wrote: >>>> On 6/7/2024 7:22 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects >>>>> royalties: >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:31:56 -0400, DFS wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 6/4/2024 7:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Remember, the big advance in Windows 95 was in actually having a >>>>>>>> “Start” menu for the first time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Another feature for bereft-of-ideas GuhNoo/FOSS copycats to clone. >>>>>> >>>>>> *nix systems had application menus some years before that. Remember >>>>>> they had GUIs before Microsoft Windows even existed. >>>>> >>>>> Heh, I remember seeing a demo of Windows 1 (1985). It was shit >>>>> compared to the Atari ST. >>>> >>>> That was before Windows gave you a career and a house and a wife. >> >> Asinine. >> >> My career actually got started on a PDP-11 and a DEC-10. Then a >> VIC-20/C-64. Then an Atari ST. Then a Sun. Then DOS. > > Did you enjoy the ST? I always get the impression that had I owned a > computer other than a cheap TI994/A back then, I would have been in love > with the ST. The Amiga was clearly better, but the Atari name still held > some weight back then. > >> It's not my fault that Billy's cheap crap was popular with PHBs. > > I guess I'm ignorant here. What's a PHB? Pointy-Haired Boss, from the world of Dilbert.[*] But that's not why I'm writing... > >>> Does his wife blue screen a lot? >> >> DFS sure knows a lot about blue screens. > > And there is no doubt that he's faced a few too. I move he be nicknamed "Blue-screen Bob". [*] I remember reading Scott Adam's book that ended with the chapter on "affirmations". Sometimes that guy isn't all there. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.9.3 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G