On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:51:3 +0800, Joerg Bartels wrote:
> Please, why did you failed with Linux? Discrib a bit more. For the future
> I can see no other thing then Unix -right it is not new, not written for
> only one CPU like the MacOS (-but there was NeXt that was fast and Unix :)
> BeOS -do not know, AmigaOS? win2000? OS2? A modern DOS would look like that.
> Or SF like Oberon or... What is a OS? What is a computer?
I was anticipating this question, and my answer is still the same
after almost a year of pondering on the subject:
I'm not quite sure.
The "feel" is too diffrent. I'm not talking about X. I'm talking
about Linux in its consule mode, where I actually feels more
comfortable then in X. (Same with Windows and DOS: I rather launch
a DOS window and do everything from there then from the GUI)
There's something in the user interface that I do not find as comfortable
as in the DOS command line. The directories structure, the whole "feel"
of the interface. There's just something in there that cause me,
after about 30 or 40 minutes of work on a linux shell, to reboot
back to a DOS season and feel better.
The internal mechanics have nothing to do with it. Infact, it got alot
of things I wish DOS would have. The slick multitasking, the native
long file names, high security, and etc'. Its something else that is
bothering me, and as stupid as it may sound, I just cant explain what
it is. I guess i'll have to keep on searching.
I think that this is partly related to the "everyday things" remark
that was posted here earlier. In a reply to that remark, it was
noted that many people still use linux for those "everyday things".
After trying to do just that for about a month, I gave up completly.
It was possible to do those "everyday things in linux". But as funny
as it may sound, it was just not as comfortable for me as in DOS.
This has nothing to do with "nostalgia". I dont get nostalgic about
stuff such as this.
Maybe its because DOS boot on my system in less then 5 seconds.
Next, to run the text editor it takes about another second or 2,
and i'm off in my work. It takes about 1 or 2 seconds to run just
about anything I need, except for games which take more time to load
for obvious reasons.
Ofcourse, with proper handling of linux you can get it to boot in
5 seconds as well, and its programs are also fast.
Maybe its because I feel safer knowning that if the system goes down,
I can still have an OS with tools simply by booting a boot-disk that
got everything on it. Ofcourse, you can also do that in Linux.
So, basicly, I have no idea. Maybe its just my head.. or maybe not,
since it seems that there are many other people around who got
both DOS and Linux and still use DOS quite alot for things they
could use Linux for.
"Why people are still using DOS" is like "Why people are still using
a Mac, when a PC can do just about the same thing, and with more software".
Its like "Why people still use OS/2" and "Why some people are actually
keeping their Commodor and Atari and even developing software for it",
and it has nothing to do with nostalgia, and has nothing to do with
trying to be diffrent.
My best explanation is this: DOS is an OS. Kapish. I can do on it
just about everything I need, I am totally familiar with it, and I
dont need to switch to another OS just to do exactly what I allready can.
I would like to see it "evolving" to have some of the features
that current OSs got (32-bit, multithreading, multitasking), since
this can only help my DOS work. And.. thats it.
So all in all - the day we will finally figure out why people are
sticking to "hopeless platforms", is also the day when we will figure
another one of those weird things about the human race.
Or Botton
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