Interesting Commentary On Microsoft Windows' Rise- And Fall

[Shamar]

Windows is one of those things that I've always just sort of... tolerated.

It's irritating, but I'm stuck with it. Most things I have not only dont support Linux, but they're often the types of programs that get all uppity if I dont sacrifice a goat to the moon once a month. A lot of very awkward things that aint getting less awkward ever. That's not even counting the emulation archive. That one's TWO goats per month and it still goes insane every now and then.

Even my blasted controller app (ReWASD) is like that. And that's one of those "cant go without it" sorts.

The one extremely specific thing I know will work on anything is Steam itself, but... yeah a lot of games are Windows only as well.

I miss DOS. "Command" went directly to "does things" and that was it. And no freaking internet. Never thought I'd start to develop a distaste for the internet as a whole, but here we are. Bah.

I still sometimes use a DOS editor called PC Write from the 1980s. You can select a block of text (not just lines or paragraphs) from anywhere and move it around or swap blocks. EXTREMELY useful for some of the data I had to work with (OK, it CAN be done with Excel, but is extremely clumsy, messes up the rows and columns, and is a pain to convert formats). After 40 years, Microsoft still doesn't have a text editor to do this. And I have written to them about this several times, no response.