Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

On 2025-04-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 4/18/25 20:35, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:07:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
 

The "one size fits all" GUI that Windows and Ubuntu was trying to push
on their customers was stupid. A smartphone and a tablet are used
differently than a desktop or laptop. I remember seeing the ads for
Windows 8 where a person is sitting at a desk, keyboard and mouse in
front of him or her and, instead of using the mouse (or keyboard) they
awkwardly reach across the desk and tap the screen. With the Windows
tablets their ads were showing off add-on membrane keyboards.

 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/surfacekeyboard?
icid=Surface_Acc_Cat_R1CP2_ProflexKeyboard
 
Oh, you wanted a keyboard with that? Here's a nice one for $399.99.

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The worst part is that those keyboards are absolutely awful. I had one
on the Surface RT I recycled for my father-in-law. Typing on that is a
miserable experience. I imagine that is what the Atari 400 felt like.

Yeah, they look like membrane keyboards, like my Timex-Sinclair 1000 had in
the early 1980s. I bought a chicklet keyboard that glued on my keyboard —
that worked much better, but still not a "real" keyboard.

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