From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 5:59:20 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:   
   > On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:30:24 PM UTC-7, dicksilk wrote:   
   > > On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:   
   > >    
   DS:>   
   > > Very upsetting. I may have to switch to a different email provider after   
   all these years....   
   PS:>   
   > 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.   
      
   Agreed!   
   Consider:  1) a CORE OS, then with 2) selective add-ons ("apps") for   
   individual purposes.   
      
   At least, that's the way things *started* back in the day....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)