Alvah Whealton > (roll your own excuses) Off topic slightly, but I have installed a windows-like distro on several people's computers, because they were used to windows, but were worried about viruses, scammers, &c. There are times I think, if they could just use UNIX or more on topic DOS, they would never go back. But they are scared of major change. Those distros are for people who want windows but not Microsoft.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:41 AM Alvah Whealton <awheal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:04 PM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Partly because OS/2 failed, and MS cheated DR out of its fair share of >> the market, we never got the multitasking relatives of DOS we could >> have had in the 1980s. Instead, we got a very heavyweight inefficient >> series of ones in the 1990s... and we still run their descendants >> today. >> >> And in its efforts to keep up, Linux has grown just as bloated. > > > Amen to that. > > Adding insult to injury, I am amazed at how many distros pat themselves on > the back for being "just like Windows." > > I have to wonder what percentage of the folks who migrate from Windows to > such distros will actually return to Windows when either: > > a) they discover that the distro is not a Windows clone > or > b) their friends are not making the switch > or > c) the crap software they bought off the shelf won't run on Linux > or > (roll your own excuses) > > Al Whealton > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Johnpaul T. Humphrey _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
