From: blinkingblythe01@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:30:24 PM UTC-7, dick...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:   
   >    
   > > I can say for sure that when I boot up Windows 3.11 in Dosbox to relive   
   > > some old memories, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off my   
   > > shoulders. Even with it's stability issues and rather awkward UI design,.I   
   > > feel like I am once again back in control of everything, that nothing   
   > > I don't know about is happening behind my back, and that I won't   
   > > be blitzed with notifications or "Your experience will be better..." or   
   > > all of the second guessing and unwanted overrides of modern operating   
   > > systems.   
   > >   
   > > The industry needs to do a full course reversal into that direction.   
   > AMEN!   
   >   
   > I started feeling "amiss" when they (the industry at large) began   
   over-blowing the BASIC computer language into "visual BASIC" and other formats.   
   >   
   > Keeping the computer at a "computational tool" level was *LIBERATING* yet   
   turning it into a demographics data mining operation feels "depleting."   
   >   
   > Just last month, gmail made changes to their system which *deliberately*   
   rendered Outlook Express as "obsolete" / non-functional.   
   >   
   > Very upsetting. I may have to switch to a different email provider after all   
   these years....   
      
   With MS-DOS/Windows 3.11, I had a very good idea about   
   what was going on, even though I didn't have the source code,   
   nor did I run those OS's under a machine language monitor.   
      
    Nowadays, OSes in general are more and more like black boxes,   
   overly complex to the point even the developers don't know   
   exactly what's going on with the very OS they are adding and   
   changing code for. Most Linux distributions which you have   
   access all of the source code to are impossible for one   
   person to fully understand the internal workings.   
      
    Yes, we need to go back to simpler OSes, that does not have   
   all of the bloat and eye candy that is really there for marketing   
   purposes, stuff that is also plaguing the %100 free and open   
   source Linux distros. If this is something for a Smart TV,   
   then fine, the OS can be a noisy seizure inducing circus.   
   But I expect my work computer to be a tool, and look like   
   one too.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)