From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fwd: [simh] Announcing the Open SIMH project
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 09:28:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA815723-A007-4B85-AE3C-385DA93BBE77@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBfHLaxGAGkk_i_oVqYQZ-m6HrJY3ACqia6naA-aqVKk7g@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 7 Jun 2022, at 00:53, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 at 21:41, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com <mailto:crossd@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The other day, I needed a Linux machine for work. I grabbed another
> NUC and put Arch on it. A vastly different experience: much more akin
> to installing 7th Edition than Windows or macOS. Oh! And I missed a
> step, so I had to pull some shenanigans to fix that.
>
> Gentoo is even more arcane, but that's essentially an "I want to do everything myself" distribution. I suppose my point is that there exist a full range of distributions, from the truly masochistic Linux From Scratch to the most hands-off/static ChromeOS Flex. I don't believe that any other "OS" has such a wide range of offerings. This is obviously both a wonderful feature and a confusing nightmare, depending on your audience.
Lest it be thought that all is sweetness and light in Linux-land, there were years of fairly intense competition involved in getting installers to the point that you can start with a downloaded image, burn it to a USB, boot it, run it, and (optionally) make it persist over a reboot, all with very minimal need to understand or care about the many, many things going on under the hood.
More recently, installation has become more-or-less settled technology (and so things like Arch have arisen that specialise away from that experience), and there’s increasing competition around the end-user experience. Distributions like ChromeOS or https://elementary.io/ or (from the BSD world!) https://hellosystem.github.io/, are attempting to provide a more seamless user experience than the standard GNOME-or-KDE duopoly that has until recently focused on being competitive with decades old Windows/macOS.
Perhaps that’s something OpenSIMH could take from this history: a focus on painless installation and a decent UI!
d
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2022-06-03 20:00 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-06-03 20:12 ` [TUHS] " Blake McBride
2022-06-03 20:23 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-06-03 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2022-06-03 21:20 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-03 21:32 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-03 21:34 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-03 21:37 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-03 21:36 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-03 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-03 22:16 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-03 22:30 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-03 22:52 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-04 0:10 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-04 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-04 1:46 ` David Arnold
2022-06-06 0:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-06-06 0:47 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-06 1:17 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-06 1:02 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-06 1:09 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-06 1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-06 1:40 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-06 2:36 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-06 12:43 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-06 13:41 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-06 14:27 ` Blake McBride
2022-06-06 14:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-06-06 14:53 ` Henry Bent
2022-06-06 23:28 ` David Arnold [this message]
2022-06-07 14:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-06-07 15:08 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-07 15:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-07 16:03 ` Will Senn
2022-06-07 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-07 16:45 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-07 16:57 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-07 17:05 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-07 16:46 ` Blake McBride
2022-06-07 17:26 ` Paul Winalski
2022-06-07 20:09 ` Blake McBride
2022-06-07 17:00 ` Paul Winalski
2022-06-07 23:41 ` [TUHS] " Chris Hanson
2022-06-07 15:55 ` [TUHS] Re: Fwd: " Richard Salz
2022-06-03 23:56 ` David Arnold
2022-06-04 0:30 ` Yeechang Lee
2022-06-04 1:03 ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-03 22:33 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03 22:40 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-03 22:56 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03 22:26 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03 22:19 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-03 21:35 ` Ben Walton
2022-06-03 20:52 ` Will Senn
2022-06-03 21:06 ` [TUHS] " Adam Thornton
2022-06-04 9:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-04 2:59 [TUHS] Re: Fwd: " Bakul Shah
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