Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: -hh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: A Distro for DFS! Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:41:21 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <56k8ljt0k5qln6ic90pabniph3dfut9n27@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:41:22 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="83c72b7d000ac0b2a607bc6537ecc5cc"; logging-data="441364"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mgfhkCSUA6pliGIWiuluRV9QPiqhxKC4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:MXLLyvfi/6MzR7j8qB+v6gT7qYE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3080 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