XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10/29/2025 10:13 AM, Handsome Jack wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Quite apart from the fact that 99% of computer users wouldn't even know   
   > what "build from source" means, let alone how to do it. I must admit I was   
   > a bit flabbergasted when one of my first help questions to a Linux forum   
   > came back with that as a feasible solution.   
   >   
      
   Linux comes with things like "build-essential", which is   
   a toolkit that handles all sorts of odd-jobs that arise   
   in Linux. Say you had gcc, g++, make, then you could   
   compile a thing that came to hand, from source.   
      
   Windows provides something that is getting more similar,   
   in that Visual Studio Community Edition gets all sorts of   
   capabilities bolted to it. While it does not emphasize the same   
   programming languages, some of the intent is similar. I've compiled   
   a few things, using VS on a different OS partition, with my own   
   hand-hewn include and lib paths.   
      
   Compiling stuff is like warm beer, it's an acquired taste. I've   
   been doing it, on and off, for a long time.   
      
   I built this from source, in the era. 1993. Since I had no FOSS   
   tree on my UNIX box, it took 40 hours of work, to build this from   
   source. Precisely when I was finished, the IT department phoned   
   and took it away from me, and into the garbage it went. That's   
   because the license terms are "no commercial usage" and I was in violation.   
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_Mosaic   
      
   I went back to using Lynx on the UNIX box. That's how you punish   
   the UNIX users. Lynx is the one on the left, which is an   
   obvious good time. Some of the text lines on the page on the   
   left, can be repeated four times, if you didn't get the memo   
   the first time. It's the browser equivalent of vegemite.   
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29#/media/F   
   le:Lynx_vs._Firefox_rendering.png   
      
   I used Lynx mainly for downloading chip datasheets, so I was   
   mostly using the download feature on it. Like a poor mans "wget".   
   Some pages were so poorly rendered, they were virtually unreadable   
   as story material. Not exactly a tool for entertainment.   
      
      Paul   
      
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