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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!




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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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