Subj : What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Accession
From : MRO
Date : Sun Feb 23 2025 01:56 am

 Re: What's Your Go-to OS
 By: Accession to MRO on Sat Feb 22 2025 05:22 pm

> Sure, but 3rd party stuff shouldn't be necessary for any desktop environment
> in order to make it work comfortably with a desktop PC. They all thought
> tablets were going to take over the world, and they didn't.
>
> At that time, I remember Gnome had all icons (like a tablet would) and no
> "start" menu. I think at first, they brought the start menu back, and then
> they eventually turned all the large icons into regular icons that could be
> placed in a taskbar/docker thing again.
>
> Windows did something similar around the Windows 8 release, and then went
> backpeddled in 8.1 to at least offer an option for a normal non-touchscreen
> desktop style again.
>
> I remember that time quite well, as I was dabbling with Linux for awhile
> before that just as a fun hobby, but right around that time was when I ended
> up shifting all of my BBS/FTN, plex and other server related stuff over to
> CLI Linux, for good.

i just think it was a poor decision to make it LOOK like a mobile device and there was backlash so they change it to make people happy.  you cant fault them for trying, though.

I still use windows for my home system because i am no longer a power user.  i of course use linux for my servers because that's the best way to do things.

i'm not a big gamer, i just can't stand the repetition. i will mess around with a  sandbox game but i dont think i can ever play a game until completion ever again.
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