From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:09:07 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Because I sometimes use ArcMap, I run Windows.
>
I run Windows because it's easy to get third-party maintenance for Windows
or Mac, and Windows is easier to tune.
Cygwin plus the sam editor make me feel at home.
>
Ditto, except I don't like TUI editors, so I use `ex` and drop into `vi'
mode when I need to bounce on the % key when doing Lisp. The benefits of
`sam -d` over `ex` aren't big enough to justify changing years of habit.
The main signs of Microsoft are the desktop, Bing, File Explorer and Task
> Manager.
>
I use both Edge/Bing and Chrome/Google depending on what's integrated with
them.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-07 19:41 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-08 16:09 ` John Cowan [this message]
2024-03-09 10:07 ` [TUHS] " Wesley Parish
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2024-03-07 6:47 [TUHS] " Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-07 9:09 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-03-07 11:04 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-07 13:08 ` Ben Kallus
2024-03-07 13:16 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-03-08 1:15 ` Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-08 3:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 3:57 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 3:58 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 6:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-08 11:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-08 14:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:01 ` Marc Donner
2024-03-08 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-08 15:42 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-08 15:45 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 15:50 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 15:28 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-07 13:31 ` Brantley Coile
2024-03-07 14:23 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-07 14:45 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2024-03-07 14:38 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-03-07 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-07 15:56 ` Thomas Kellar
2024-03-07 16:12 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:33 ` ron minnich
2024-03-07 18:32 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-07 16:03 ` Jim Capp
2024-03-07 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-07 21:21 ` Adam Thornton
2024-03-07 22:25 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-07 22:20 ` Åke Nordin
2024-03-07 22:32 ` Mike Markowski
2024-03-07 23:58 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 16:23 ` Stuff Received
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