Re: A Distro for DFS!

On 12/9/24 11:44 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

-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.

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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.)

Ah, got it.

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.

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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?

Sure, which factors into why App developers limit what they support.
-hh