Action Retro explores installing (on a Pentium 4 machine) and playing with Windows XP Professional but for Point of Sale systems. Really it's just Windows XP Professional, with a slightly...
Action Retro explores installing (on a Pentium 4 machine) and playing with Windows XP Professional but for Point of Sale systems. Really it's just Windows XP Professional, with a slightly different theme.
This makes me almost nostalgic for a version of Windows I never used (XP; I skipped from 98SE to 10 due to a decade and a half stop-off on Ubuntu; then I almost immediately switched to Mac because I didn't want to upgrade to Windows 11.)
I can't speak for OP, but I took a similar-ish path (but went right from Linux to Mac in the end, no intermediate return to Windows land). For me, it was just wanting everything to work right so I...
I can't speak for OP, but I took a similar-ish path (but went right from Linux to Mac in the end, no intermediate return to Windows land). For me, it was just wanting everything to work right so I can do the things I actually want to do. When I was younger, messing around with Linux was among the things I wanted to be doing, so it made sense. Now, not so much.
A lot of the Linux "problems" are different from what they once were. Drivers are generally solid and you can buy a machine designed for Linux. But the software story turned into a mess with the Wayland switch, Gnome breaking the world every other version, KDE turning into a nightmare with KDE 4 and then basically starting over with Plasma, etc. Some things that drove me away are probably fixed now (Plasma seems pretty great), but some are ongoing, and I've just been chugging along with my Mac, so there's no reason to switch again.
The Mac hardware is also so, so much better (to me), especially since the M1 came out. So there's that, too.
I really like Debian as it’s no nonsense. But I can’t run it on my M3 Air, so it’s MacOS for me. A computer is after all not just software, but hardware and software working together.
I really like Debian as it’s no nonsense. But I can’t run it on my M3 Air, so it’s MacOS for me. A computer is after all not just software, but hardware and software working together.
That was a fun nostalgia watch. I wouldn't be messing with IDE cables and Windows drivers again for my life, but watching others do it is definitely great. Kinda like horror films.
That was a fun nostalgia watch. I wouldn't be messing with IDE cables and Windows drivers again for my life, but watching others do it is definitely great. Kinda like horror films.
Action Retro explores installing (on a Pentium 4 machine) and playing with Windows XP Professional but for Point of Sale systems. Really it's just Windows XP Professional, with a slightly different theme.
This makes me almost nostalgic for a version of Windows I never used (XP; I skipped from 98SE to 10 due to a decade and a half stop-off on Ubuntu; then I almost immediately switched to Mac because I didn't want to upgrade to Windows 11.)
Why did you quit Linux, out of interest?
I can't speak for OP, but I took a similar-ish path (but went right from Linux to Mac in the end, no intermediate return to Windows land). For me, it was just wanting everything to work right so I can do the things I actually want to do. When I was younger, messing around with Linux was among the things I wanted to be doing, so it made sense. Now, not so much.
A lot of the Linux "problems" are different from what they once were. Drivers are generally solid and you can buy a machine designed for Linux. But the software story turned into a mess with the Wayland switch, Gnome breaking the world every other version, KDE turning into a nightmare with KDE 4 and then basically starting over with Plasma, etc. Some things that drove me away are probably fixed now (Plasma seems pretty great), but some are ongoing, and I've just been chugging along with my Mac, so there's no reason to switch again.
The Mac hardware is also so, so much better (to me), especially since the M1 came out. So there's that, too.
I really like Debian as it’s no nonsense. But I can’t run it on my M3 Air, so it’s MacOS for me. A computer is after all not just software, but hardware and software working together.
That was a fun nostalgia watch. I wouldn't be messing with IDE cables and Windows drivers again for my life, but watching others do it is definitely great. Kinda like horror films.