Why Linux Sucks- 2020 Version

On 1/9/20 9:23 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Snit
wrote:

oh, another thing, you could move or rename the active system folder,
even after booting from it.

Yup. And even now you can rename files and things like Open Recent still
works just fine. I remember being told in COLA that such things were
impossible... and even when I showed a video of it I was told I must be
forging it.

yep. it's quite amusing to change the name of an open file and watch
the title bar in the app change.

Right. Or to not have it be open and then go to the Open Recent dialog.
And more. Had a debate with "Nobody" over it so made this video:

https://youtu.be/ulPJmuxQX8s

And also with Owl:

https://youtu.be/vS9ORbixIt0

OK, a bit more contentious than perhaps it could have been, but it was
in response to his nonsense.

Oh, and where Owl tried to replicate this basic functioning on Linux...
it was kind funny:

http://youtu.be/W15g0TwA_E0



lemmings, a very popular and fun game from around 1985 or so, was one
of the various apps used to test compatibility.

these days, it can be played in a browser...

I still sometimes play Risk at one of these two sites:

http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation

i meant *just* lemmings in a browser, without macos or any other os.

here's a few that come up in a search:
https://www.hmilch.net/h/lemmings.html
https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
http://www.bombsite.org

Cool. Will have to play. I *think* the first place I saw Lemmings was on
the Amiga... but liked when it was on the GS. LemminGS. Ha!

Also used them to show my kids (12 and 14) how old computers worked.
They figured them out pretty easily, though the both were shocked you
had to hold the mouse down to keep menus visible,

that was expected back then.

someone from the past would be equally shocked that now the menu stays
down.

I remember a study called "Of Mice and Menus" where they looked at the
efficiency of different models.

and one was confused
by no back button in the Finder.

there shouldn't be a back button in the finder. it's supposed to be
spatial, not a glorified browser.

I can buy that... but they were still surprised.

Both also had some issues finding
programs, but once they got used to the idea of no dock they did fairly
well.

they're wherever you put them, exactly how it should be.

They did not put them anywhere -- they used the online virtual machine I
pointed them to.


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