somewhatbetter's comments

Dell sells (because i am pretty sure they don't manufacture them) really crappy input devices nowadays. I sent countless back directly to their Munich HQ.

Yes, the other approach is sport.

Are you mad because you are also a mediocre programer? You can change that through learning.

You should stop buying non-standard compilant hardware then.

Why would anybody work in offices? Enjoy covid, work from home.

You can simply eat less but better quality food.

And bugs.

Thanks to god for covid i don't have to return to the office. It is a small price the humanity have to pay for that, so it is ok.

You should buy a standard mouse, no driver needed. A mouse and its protocol is prety simple, but now we achieved the state where a USB connected mouse reports itself as 5 mouse and 3 keyboard and some other HID capable device, good luck using them on legacy or alternative operating systems. (Hint: won't work).

>Bbbbuut what about my programable buttons, led and whatever?

I don't care about that, i care only about that i should be able to buy standard mouse which is always harder and harder task because you buy every piece of s with rgb leds so they will stop to produce non-manchild computer hardware. I wouldn't care at all if the hw would still provide the basic functionality without any special driver, but nooo, thats too much.

Proposal: send the hw back to their HQ and demand your money back.

Then please define me what a "general purpose computer" means.

No, obviously i am wrong here. nix users doesn't larp as mainframe administrator, no way. They just simply doing the same, but it is definetely different, because they doing it on a pc. Man, i am speechless. Are you one of those who advocates for unix user handling, so you can abuse it to separate processes and don't even notice, how stupid to follow practices from the 60's? But hey, you can have an apache user...

Sad, but true, most people talking here should never picked IT as a profession.

>You can use Omni OS or Solaris as a desktop and i bet it's vastly more Desktop capable the Haiku.

Yep, it is a well known phenomenon some folks like to larp as mainframe administrator on their home pc but it wont make a server OS a desktop OS. This is also true for linux.

>No ZFS is a filesystem, and the Omni OS installer copies the image from the iso to the disk, the haiku installer is not a OS too.

I meant you can definetely use zfs tools to clone a volume, but who want to read the zfs user guide for this? From the user POV starting the Installer and picking the new target to copy the whole installed and personalized system on a GUI is the simplest way. No other desktop OS does this, because while programmers know the storage technologies evolving every day and storage space was always an important question, nobody tried to help to the user to move the installed system to a different disk, instead they offer sketchy 3rdparty disk cloning tools.

Mediocre solution, but we never expected anything else from programmers, most of them dumb / soulless.

>The OpenBSD bug on Xenocara which allowed root needed more code, not less.

X was considered and still is a "hack".

>So this is the case with pledge(4) and unveil(4), you need (a little) more code in onder to sandbox setuff properly.

You don't write a graphical subsystem and then tries to sandbox it. Sadly nix advocates won't ever understand this logic.

>NT4 was much more complex than W98SE, yet NT4/w2k was much better on multitasking (by a huge margin). I've seen w98se crawl even with a Pentium 4 and 512MB of RAM with just 3 IE windows open back in the day, while 2k flied.

Let me compare apples with pears, i mean two different approach for OS development which have almost nothing common except the w32 stuff, and let me conclude the newer is better. I don't really see your point.

You probably cannot add 1+1, that person meant the 90's style desktop means there is no unnecessary cruft in it, therefore it won't try to amaze the user with eyecandy, so operations will happen instantly. And less code means less chance for bugs.

>enterprise grade server os

We are talking about desktop operating systems here, so this is completely irrelevant.

>zfs

Not an OS.

Why generalize? You need that.

I was talking explicitly about BSD and nix.

It is a religion.

Option 2 : BlueEyedOS / Cosmoe

> Very friendly (but also effective) installer. Probably the best I'd seen, at the time. Hell, maybe still the best.

The Installer in BeOS/Haiku does't do anything special: it just copies everything from the source to the target. The Installer is available in the installed system too, therefore you can install your installed and personalized system to a different disk, basically cloning everything.

But you forgot the bootmanager from your list.

I still yet to see anything like this 2 in other OS.