On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 07:02, Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I might be banished for saying - but, I actually like Microsoft.
It's refreshing to hear that. I don't like the company, I am not wild about the modern products, its criminal record is shameful... but it has done some fantastic products over the years, some of which re-defined the industry. > What Microsoft did to DR (Digital Research) and Stacker was a bit cold > (making Windows difficult to use with DR-DOS in the 90's, and basically > straight up theft of Stacker's tech). Allegedly Microsoft also > deliberately made Net"Scrape" slower than their own IE.. In early 90s, I > did switch from MS-DOS to DR-DOS because at the time, DR-DOS did just have > better features (like the 4DOS features/command line scroll back, tab to > complete, stuff like that). Agreed, and me too. > I've tried Linux a number of times over the years - > it's terrific for a headless file server or maybe a router, but otherwise, > No Thanks.... If you really learn Windows, there are so many short-cut > keys, I'm still rarely touching the mouse. I am a Linux professional these days and work with it all the time. The keyboard UI is so vastly inferior it's not even funny. Windows rules the world in keyboard UI, and this extends to support for people with disabilities, such as blind and partially sighted users, people with motor problems preventing use of pointing devices, etc. Linux -- *all* the GUIs -- is so bad at this it is _shameful_. But then I also prefer DOS and NT CMD to any xNix shell I've ever seen. Coming up on 40 years of xNix use now and I still hate the shell. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
