Re: A Distro for DFS!

-hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 12/9/24 7:59 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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Sure, but Visual Studio is an App, not an OS.

 
Yeah, just like Emacs is not an OS :-)

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When did Emacs stop being a text editor?

It's humor. One example:

    https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/an-ode-to-emacs-the-greatest-operating

    Want to use Emacs as the window manager for your operating system, of
    course you can do that. There is a reason why one of the old Emacs logos is
    a kitchen sink.

(There a lot more fanboy raving in that article.)

Granted, Clippy was part of the MS-Office App, not the OS, but MS has
had some fuzzy disembarkation lines for decades (eg, Internet Explorer).
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And FWIW, I'm not saying that RonB was wrong to be complaining about
Clippy .. it was bad .. but simply that sins from a couple of decades
ago just aren't all that relevant anymore to contemporary life.

 
There's still plenty to complain about with Microsoft, its apps, and its
OS.

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Sure, but the scope here was just Clippy within an App, and Apps aren't
really relevant to be part of Linux-vs-others advocacy...
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...unless the crux of your complaint is  that Software Company X chose
to support OSs A&B, but not OS C - - but that's their business decision
that they're free to decide entirely on their own.

Do apps not depend strongly on the operating system's API(s), as documented in
many thick tomes?

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