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Comment Does this mean it'll stop sucking? (Score 1) 27

I've really, really been unimpressed with Gemini. I'll use almost anything else.

Also -- completely tangential -- can I just say how nice it is that Slashdot still exists? Of course, it's WAY different than Chips 'n Dips and Redhat IPO days, but still, it's fun to come here and feel 1998 wash over me...

Comment Re: Umm, I don't get it (Score 1) 175

I've been doing computers a LONG time. And whenever someone asks me which computer they should buy, my answer is always the same: the one that works for you. So, like, sorry if you don't get it, but Ken Thompson -- a freaking *nix demigod -- has found what works for him. Respectfully, who are YOU to question his workflow?

Comment Suck it up, buttercup: desktop is dead. (Score 1) 103

I mean, YES, people still use desktop. But you have three real parties:
* Office workers
* Gamers
* Everyone else
And the "everyone elses" use desktop for exactly one thing: the web browser. This includes grandma, your non-gamer friends, etc. And they really don't care about the desktop experience all that much. They want to use a sensible UI, and use that to launch a browser. And then they Just Don't Care. Because on the other side of that browser is email, news, streaming, social media, cat videos, etc.

Comment BBS -- yeah, I'm old-skool. (Score 1) 155

30+ years on, and ISCA BBS (telnet://bbs.iscabbs.com) is still going strong with a couple dozen active users, most of whom have been on since the early 90's. And, yeah, we have eXpress messages as part of the Citadel code the BBS runs on, and I gotta say, ain't no pop-ups in BBS land. But lots of good discussion.

$.02,

-Slarty (a/k/a user "Kena" on ISCA)

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