• Alexmitter@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Skill issue. And thats fine, not everyone can master more then DOS and “Click this random executable downloaded from the web”.

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      1 year ago

      Some of us don’t have the time or the energy to bother with “learning” basic operations that have been solved for four decades. I don’t need to master the thing. I need it to be able to render more than a bare minimum VESA VGA desktop, read a USB HID, and connect to a network interface - without needing to leave the GUI. These things have been onerous tasks on Linux every time I’ve tried it. The only distro that’s reliably done all three of those incredibly basic things without needing a command line is Kali/Backtrack. And I don’t think I should run a pen test tool for day-to-day operations.

      I put time into learning Haiku, because it worked. I’ve avoided FreeDOS because their tools are slower than those in MS-DOS or DR-DOS 1-7 (8.1, of course, used FreeDOS tools and caused a conflict).

      And there’s also the case of some people disliking Stallman’s odious habits, and having a personal hatred (and the feeling being entirely mutual) for Linus Torvald. I’m in that category as well.