Ironically some big "don't copy Windows" Linux distros and WMs do chase the modern Windows gimmicks while not having 9X-minimum functionality. We've seen this in the very Vista-inspired (and loathed at launch) KDE4.

Windows derailed towards a 'tablet' UI since 8 though...

To whom may concern, I’ve been on #Vogons (irc.slashdot.org) at times last week and I plan to appear a bit more. Hopefully, the channel will gain more traction with more usage.

DOS on sata
A few years ago I bought an old pc at a thrift store.
I stripped it for parts but it was from the tansition era from pata to sata drives and it had a pata to sata converter board installed.I found it buried in the closet and decided to give it a try.I had to change the power connector (wrong sex) to one that would plug into the pc power supply.Used dos 7.10 fdisk to get rid of the 2 partitions.Laptop sata I was using for osx86 experiments.That went fine making 1 dos partition but format wouldn't format.Kept getting invalid media type.Had to use a partition manager I have for win7 to get fat32 on it.After booting a few times I was able to get sys :c on it and it boots dos 7.10 standalone.Faster than pata for sure.Have wolf3d and redneck on it now along with xtreegold of course.
Live cd with win7 so I can talk about it here on the same pc now.

Last week same pc but dos 7.10 on a pata drive 10gig partition 40 gig drive.
Got dos on fine.Win7 starter version on the remainder which made a reserved partition and the main ntfs partition for win 7.
But it put all the boot files on the c: drive so it would boot windows but ignore dos.Tried easybcd manager to get it to boot dos and win7 which it did but disabled the floppy in dos. I deleted all windows related boot files in c: and used the win7 dvd to repair startup.It then put all the boot files on the main ntfs partition.Boot dos fine.Used grub4dos and edited menu.lst to get the win7,dos choices.grub.exe in config .sys so no other involvement.Had to tweak win7 so I could see the fat32 drive.Win7 didn't give it a drive letter til I did it manually.I can play games in dos then boot win7 to get on the net.

DOS 7.10 on cf card
256meg lexar cf card with the usb logo on the back
usb capable so it takes a more primitive adapter
I had to use rufus in win7 to format and make bootable,
then I put the chinese dos 7.10 on.
On my shuttle ab45s014 mainboard I am limited to usb 1.0
so dos is very sluggish and sometimes fail on int 24
on a laptop usb2.0 works fine,but no sound.
I need a dos usb ehci driver instead of uhci
then I can proceed to the smart media tests (8 meg smart media from an old camera).

Put up 2 shelves next to my book shelf to store more software big boxes.

Omg Max Payne! I need to play this game again

I woke up to the sounds of chainsaws buzzing over my head because the neighbors are fixing their roof. Does that count ?

I've been testing an experimental wrapper/GUI for qemu on iOS devices, named UTM (https://getutm.app), so far it kinda works, I've set up a Windows 2000 VM. There is network, but no sound and many things are still missing (remember, it's experimental). Not even support for smart keyboard cover. But looks promising.

I've also been searching for other options. I have iDOS2/DOSPad (whatever is the name) installed on my iPad running MSDOS 6.22 and Windows 3.x. No networking. However iDOS 2 needs to be heavily updated for iOS 13 and beyond, I've tried to compile it myself but it's full of bugs and errors, I'm unable to make a clean IPA to install. (https://github.com/litchie/dospad). If it worked like dosbox-x, with NE2000 patch, would be an amazing piece of art and the best option ever for things before Windows NT builds.

Another good option would be iBox 2.6.8 (based on Bochs), but like DOSPad, requires updates to iOS 13 UI. (https://github.com/KyujuuAlpha/iBox-2).

I'm placing my bets on UTM, if it gets sound and other devices support so I can use my Windows 2K VM on my iPad Pro 1st gen.

Ordered another 78" heavy duty shelving unit since they were only $135 shipped. Got it put up and already putting it to use. These things are awesome.. 10 minute assembly and they hold a crapload.

Ate my weight in donuts, watched cartoons, and played the hell outta Street Fighter V. It was a quality Saturday.

Slept for half of the day, ate some food, watched Resende FC 1x1 CR Vasco da Gama for the Rio de Janeiro State Championship, was a terrible game. Hopefully "El Clásico" tomorrow will be better (real madrid vs BARCELONA). Now I am trying to put some new logos and kits for the Football Manager 2020 Mobile game on my iPhone. And finding things to do with my virtual machines tonight.

Shovelled 10 inches of snow off the driveway and sidewalk. Really cold weekend for mid March. Last three days were around -22 c. Brr 🥶

Finally finished setting up a lga 775 Acer matx desktop. HDD has a stuck head, so swapped a crappy 160gb laptop drive in. Finally got a lowend gaming setup for my little cousin now.

Applying for jobs left and right (unemployment train) since late February.

Spending hours and hours with Apple Support to complain about my Apple Music subscription not working in all my devices. No songs being synced. Disaster.

I was on hold for 50 minutes with the MIUIA to get my unemployment figured out and got it all sorted out (I made a mistake when I filed online as their site was crashing).

-Did the usual Saturday morning pancake brekky.
-Vacuumed. Cleaned the bathrooms. Changed furnace filters.
-Made a few of these crazy omelettes for lunch. Just chock full of black beans, red kidney beans, ground beef, chicken sausage, spinach, canned corn, onions, garlic, tomatoes, red pepper, olives, and no fewer than 5 kinds of cheese: ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, cheddar & monterey jack. Served them with basmati rice infused with coconut milk, turmeric, cumin, and saffron.

-Streamed around 50GB worth of Netflix, assuming their 7GB/hour figure is accurate.
-Finally got around to assembling these little guys.

It was an alright Saturday. 😀

Did your tastebuds survive the hit 😁

my recently acquired dimension xps gen 4 came with a pentium 4 550 / 3.4 GHz and a geforce 6800. meh... Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
it is socket 775 with an intel 925x chipset and it does not support pentium d or core 2. pentium 4 only.
upgraded to a pentium 4 670 / 3.8 GHz and a geforce 7800 gtx. that's a little bit better, i think i'll keep it.
also, swapped out the 80gb mechanical hard for a 120gb ssd and added a 1tb mechanical drive for data and backups.