Windows 11 [is trash] review
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I don't see why you don't think of yourself as a linux person, those are all the main reasons I switched.
If you're actually being serious about DOS though, god speed, people are still doing cool things with it.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=wQCiZtnJekU
Yeah I pretty much in the last year and a half have gone 75% Linux. I'd played with it for years but this is the first time it's stuck. I'll probably see about putting on my tiny little laptop too soon as well. I think part of it was going to KDE instead and the hardware support improving as well.
Not in the slightest serious about DOS, although that video is cool so I'll have to watch the whole thing. I have started thinking about screwing around with old tech, but if I do it will be something more like 8-bit or 16-bit CPUs where the hardware is much closer to the software. It would be totally for fun and probably never lead to anything useful. Maybe something like trying Sega Genesis homebrew or something like that. I learned all my programming skills as a kid mostly in QBasic or compiled C, all this modern day object oriented patching together pre-made frameworks isn't for me.
Old tech is a lot of fun, and if you start working on deeply embedded systems (eg. the microcontroller that controls an electric toothbrush) or extremely cost sensitive embedded systems they tend to use chips that are either very similar to or the same as those old 8/16-bit CPUs. Though that is changing somewhat as the the smaller 32-bit microcontrollers continue to come down in price.
If you don't want to go DOS, throw Windows 95 or 98 on a VM and play with it sometime. Or OS/2 Warp if you want to play with something a bit more exotic. Those OSes pretty much do the same stuff Windows 11 does: run a web browser, run Word.
OS/2 would be interesting. Just because I think that's one of the PC-based operating systems I don't think I've ever even seen in use before.
I'm thinking about trying out some sort of old game console or a C64 or something like that. I never did anything with hardware that had good support for graphics and sound. I'm sure nothing will come of it, but I've always liked just trying things.
I think the only thing that drove me to ever upgrade was the new formatting that allows bigger file sizes and more memory.
There's only one reason I don't run Linux on my main system and Windows in a VM: Gaming.
If the game developers of the few games I play would develop for Linux I would ditch it in a heart beat.
There's speculation at least with the Steam Deck being a thing now that might actually happen.
What distribution did you utilize for le gaming?