Literally reshaped the world? What, it's flat now?

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Wait, Usagi? As in, Usagi Yojimbo? Cool.

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The Killer Joke? Wasn't the killer joke [External Link] kind of suicidal to deploy?

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: GroganThere's no way they'd have chosen that mickey mouse operating system on its own merits. DOS (well, CP/M at the time) was utter garbage, it was sold for a song

CP/M wasn't garbage (http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM [External Link]); it was doing very well at the time (all the beefier micros capable of doing any sort of serious work had a port of it; it was a serious breakthrough in making micros useful for office work. Even the C64 got a cartridge extension eventually). Digital Research & Gary Kildall almost made the deal with IBM; as to why it fell through, there are many legends -- though I wouldn't rule out secret MS interference.

MS then paid a small company in Seattle to put together a shitty clone of CP/M; I believe they had some sort of distribution agreement with Digital Research; so essentially they breached whatever agreement was in place, & then plagiarized the software into DOS. Then they convinced (?!) IBM to license it per machine -- a trick that Bill Gates had tried on Commodore earlier w/ respect to BASIC, only to get rejected by Commodore's founder & then-CEO Jack Tramiel. Tramiel told Gates, "I'm already married."

Ha!
Wasn't it called "QDOS" for "Quick and Dirty OS"?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't have a good memory for acronyms; what's a UWP?

Universal Windows Platform. The package format used by Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass. UWP is incompatible with Wine, therefore anything in UWP is a no-go on Linux. The problem is that if Actibilzzard games get locked down to Game Pass or MS Store they cannot be played on Linux.

Hmmm . . . how fundamentally incompatible with Wine? Like, what are the chances it could be made to work? Or is it a legal incompatibility?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeI haven't seen season 3 of The Witcher yet, but the writers for the show have publicly stated their disdain for the source material. Like why are these people getting jobs to just trash the source? I don't get it...

Money?

One would think they would make more money by 1) keeping the fans of the source material. 2) getting new fans by making a great show.

Instead a lot of these shows are trying to cater to a specific audience, which is not their original fan base, they outwardly despise them in many cases, and attempt to either ruin the shows by making them close to unwatchable, or the take beloved franchises and try to jumpstart new ones by decimating the things that people loved about the original...

If they wanted to make money for the audience they have been making things for, they should create new content... but that actually requires talent.

Oh, I see. I thought you meant "Why would someone take a writing job to write about source material they hate?"

Yeah, dunno. Although I have noticed that even though in our society profit is supposed to drive everything, often it's actually mental laziness. Like, nobody can be bothered to do the smart thing even if it would make more money, because it's too complicated, would require departing from the template they've got and so on.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI note ChromeOS is at 4%. If only it ran, you know, programs.

It has been possible to run quite a bit of desktop software easily on ChromeOS for years now. There is even an effort underway to officially support Steam.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/steam-on-chromeos/ [External Link]

I am quite interested in the Steam thing. As for the rest . . . define "easily" :wink:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThe funniest bit about the whole IBM/RH drama is Oracle trying to step in to be the good guy.

I am trying to imagine Oracle being the good guy. I am failing miserably, but the mind is boggling!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI haven't seen season 3 of The Witcher yet, but the writers for the show have publicly stated their disdain for the source material. Like why are these people getting jobs to just trash the source? I don't get it...

Money?

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Quoting: GuestThen go and push UWP again and so long WINE/Proton/Steam Deck (Unless that executable situation isn't as hopeless as everything I've read before).

I don't have a good memory for acronyms; what's a UWP?

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