On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:


Because I sometimes use ArcMap, I run Windows.
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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.
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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.
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I use both Edge/Bing and Chrome/Google depending on what's integrated with
them.