Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 26/05/2025 05:13, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025 21:37:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Wait ... that means they are, or were, interested in “discovering
Windows”
back in the XP days, otherwise they would never have discovered how it
worked ...

 In my case, it was the 3.1 days. I migrated from CP/M to MSDOS which
wasn't a huge move. A friend saw the future in Windows and jumped on the
bandwagon with Windows 1.0. As a user it sucked; as a developer the
documentation sucked even more. After listening to him whine (whinge) I
wasn't eager to move to Windows.
 

The company didn't really move till windows 3.1 as we could do all we wanted in DOS. And SCO Unix.
Then everybody wanted to play with windows, so we let them and productivity dropped and support costs went up. Sigh.
Later it was a mixture of SUN clones running SUNOS and system V. and Windows up to around 95.
Finally some linux added to the mix. Then I retired. ran 95 for a while then XP, but then linux windowing systems got stable enough and good enough to use them as a desktop.
Ran XP in parallel until Vbox showed up. Then one less machine.
Linux is not simply the most stable and versatile operating system I have ever used, and more than good enough.
I stopped looking at other distros.
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
  Frédéric Bastiat