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Subject: Re: A Distro for DFS!
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:41:21 -0500
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On 12/9/24 11:44 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> -hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On 12/9/24 7:59 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sure, but Visual Studio is an App, not an OS.
>>>
>>> Yeah, just like Emacs is not an OS :-)
>>
>> When did Emacs stop being a text editor?
> 
> It's humor. One example:
> 
>      https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/an-ode-to-emacs-the-greatest-operating
> 
>      Want to use Emacs as the window manager for your operating system, of
>      course you can do that. There is a reason why one of the old Emacs logos is
>      a kitchen sink.
> 
> (There a lot more fanboy raving in that article.)


Ah, got it.

>>>> Granted, Clippy was part of the MS-Office App, not the OS, but MS has
>>>> had some fuzzy disembarkation lines for decades (eg, Internet Explorer).
>>>>
>>>> And FWIW, I'm not saying that RonB was wrong to be complaining about
>>>> Clippy .. it was bad .. but simply that sins from a couple of decades
>>>> ago just aren't all that relevant anymore to contemporary life.
>>>
>>> There's still plenty to complain about with Microsoft, its apps, and its
>>> OS.
>>
>> Sure, but the scope here was just Clippy within an App, and Apps aren't
>> really relevant to be part of Linux-vs-others advocacy...
>>
>> ...unless the crux of your complaint is  that Software Company X chose
>> to support OSs A&B, but not OS C - - but that's their business decision
>> that they're free to decide entirely on their own.
> 
> Do apps not depend strongly on the operating system's API(s), as documented in
> many thick tomes?

Sure, which factors into why App developers limit what they support.

-hh