Re: I installed openSUSE Leap

On 10/20/2024 2:07 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 04:56:45 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

The Raspberry Pi product family has always been for experimenters and
risk-takers, for those curious about trying new stuff that has never
been done before.
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Not a market that Microsoft Windows is at all comfortable with ...

 Microsoft had a brief fling with SBCs.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Micro_Framework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netduino
 I have a Netduino 2 that looks like an Arduino Uno at first. At the time
it sounded like a good idea. Being an ARM processor I could get
MicroPython running on it and do the requisite blink program.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Band_2
 was another shot. I've got a Fitbit Charge 6 which is similar. I didn't
want a Dick Tracy Communicator smart watch. The Charge is low profile,
tells the time, and gathers metrics. Google bought Fitbit so it may be
doomed.
 It's difficult to predict what MicrosSoft will abandon after seemingly
successful starts.

Were you ever a member of MS BizSpark?  Free to join with a business email, and you got good deals on software.  I belonged for a couple years at least, until they changed the rules with no warning and kicked a lot of people out.  I remember the way they handled it was rude.
I used to spend a lot on MS software; now very very little.