I have no dog in this fight but this post is three lines, two of which are off-topic.

66.6% off-topic is not a good ratio.

I have noticed that in your comments here and at the Reg you come off as a jerk.

Quoting yourself only reinforces that perception.

PS Notice I did not say you were a jerk but your compulsive need to argue instead of discuss and to have the last word make you come off as a jerk...

I ran OS/2 Warp and you are correct that were were very few native applications.

You could run Windows 16 apps but could not run Windows 32 apps because Microsoft kept making changes that broke Win32 on OS/2.

You could go to the Hobbes Archive and download a whole lot of ported open source software, that is what I did when I needed an app.

In fact being exposed to all that open source software is the main reason that I skipped Windows 95 and went straight to Red Hat Linux when OS/2 died.

One thing that I loved about OS/2 version 3 (Warp) was that the TCP/IP stack was an integral part of it. It made getting on the internet easy.

Windows had TCP/IP grafted on to with with the Winsock package. If you needed it you could get it by installing AOL.

LOL I thought it was pretty funny that to fix a broken Winsock on your Windows all you had to do was reinstall AOL!

I never used Windows 95, I went straight from OS/2 version 3 (Warp) to Red Hat Linux. I had no problems with Linux because I learned how to use Sun Workstations while at Rice University.

OS/2 Warp ran 16-bit versions of Windows 3.1 perfectly fine. Another way Microsoft screwed with IBM was by constantly changing the 32-bit version of Windows just enough where it broke on OS/2.

There were no technical reasons for Microsoft to make to those changes. It was just business, Microsoft figured why split the revenue with IBM when they can get 100% of the pie.

Microsoft sucked back then and they still suck today. I can't wait for support to end on Windows 10 so I can go 100% Linux. There will be some apps I will miss but not many.

LOL as an aside, I still do 90% of my image editing with JASC Paint Shop Pro 6 running on Wine. I actually paid for Crossover to make that run more smoothly.

I love PSP 6, the entire program is only 300 MB in size and lets you do stuff like layering. While there are some file formats it does not support (SVG) Gimp 3.0 works well when I can't do it in PSP 6.

But I will probably have to keep a Windows VM around to watch English Premier League soccer on Peacock. While every other streaming service works fine on Firefox in Linux Peacock actively checks to see if you run Linux and refuses to start a stream if you do.

They say it is because they don't want to support Linux even though in general Linux users usually need less support for simple stuff like that. NBC is run by idiots, a lot of their content can be found on Hulu which runs on Linux perfectly fine.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour, 8 hours is $58 a day so in reality it is two days worth of minimum wage.

But seeing as how most people making minimum wage are barely able to put a roof over their heads and still have enough left over to eat I think getting a computer is the least of their problems.

By flower they are probably referring to cannabis.

For $50 a half-ounce they probably mean Mexican sativa obtained on the street, for any sort of primo indica from a dispensary $50 will only get you a gram or two.

Uhh dude, that is a heck of a run-on sentence. LOL did you forget to take your ADD meds today?

Pretty sure i have a 5 digit UID but i only troll as AC anymore.

FTFY