ramblingsteve

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[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Amiga was difficult to program and lacked easily accessible documentation. A lot of software was developed to be ported across platforms like the Atari ST and dos, and so the Amiga often didn't get the dedicated attention it required. At the time, people would compare the Amiga to the mega drive (genesis) and SNES - it was all about the games, while the Amiga could create and not just consume. If commodore had dropped a game from the bundles and stuffed some books and a couple of dev tools then the story might have been a bit different. They bundled deluxe paint and created a long lasting legacy of artists. If they included Amos or Blitz basic they might have played more into the bedroom programmer scene of the 80s, which dipped a bit during the console years and has seen a resurgence over the last decade, which is in no small part due to the proliferation of high quality development tools. If the scorpion engine had existed for the A1200 at the time, commodore might not have needed to worry about the hardware.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Seems like the kind of numbers you would expect. Windows is the default OS for every corporate and normie desktop everywhere, followed by the graphic designers and musicians rolling MacOS, and then the rest. The ratio never really changes, and never will unless something devastating happens to MS Office. If they included every headless server and AWS EC2 instance it would be the reverse with Windows barely featuring. With the proliferation of Android devices, Linux has become a quiet revolution with mobile but the majority of users probably don't even know they run it.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

UFO (or xcom) - enemy unknown.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Enter the Void.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's Interesting how Dunlop spent his life wrestling with a suffocating corporate command and control structure to implement a system to facilitate a suffocating corporate command and control structure, while Engelbart was presenting ways of facilitating the expression of ideas with the machine. Dunlop's work with IBM is probably best left in the garage, along with IBM.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it will become an entirely cloud based OS with a thin client booting the machine straight into their Edge browser. Pay as you go operating system that never leaves their Azure walled garden. Google's Chromebooks were just ahead of their time. As Spock said: "it's Linux Jim, but not as we know it".

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

ha yes! that is depressingly likely to be 100% correct.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

so sega realised that rather than sell a retro console once, they can sell a reboot filled with DLC and monthly subscriptions forever. nice.

[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I hope they don't embark on a purge of all the original versions across the web, as is the trend at the moment from likes of Blizzard, and shackle old titles with new restrictions.

 

hi,

when I log in from lightdm to xfce4 the desktop appears with the top panel with clock and sound applet, but then there is a ~5 second delay before the panel continues to load applets and the wallpaper. I've been trying to work out what is causing the delay during xfce4 startup. I've disabled all the auto-start items but the issue remains. Does anybody know how to work out what is causing the system to pause?

Thanks for any help

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