You know I have been debating etting a pie.
It can run windows 10 iot (internet of things) core, as well as arch and
other linux distros but I havn't bothered with it.
Every time I start rationalising a computer, a new tablet, I start
asking myself what I want.
To be honest now we have wireless, while it costs a lot, I like the
laptop idea with all the modules round it as I h ave grown up with dos
and then windows.
I do think though that in theory I should get and use a desktop pc,
but immediately dismiss this because of how it fits on my desk.
Fact is I could go either way.
Then again I don't know.
Going back to what you mentioned about making programs though, my first
dos system got a custom job with a programmer friend I knew making up
a lot of the linux programs converting commands such as beep, cp, fl,
ls, reboot, rm, and others to dos for me.
In fact I still have a disk or so with some of these on them.
The physical hard drives, disks etc of all my stuff have deteriated
far beyond their usefull abilities and I have a folder of stuff I
run in dosbox.
With manamon and also other things in my life of late I havn't run
things as much as I would like.
I have tried to run arch on an old machine when I was down for a
month with the flue but once better I never turned it on again and now
my linux install is hosed probably because my computer has lost time again.
From time to time I think I should really reformat and get things
fixed but I've never bothered.
On 28/07/2016 3:55 a.m., Travis Siegel wrote:
When I need a program that doesn't exist on the mac, I either go to
places like sourceforge and find one, or I sit down and write my own. I
realize this option isn't open to all, but to be honest, I've had to
write very few apps for myself. Especially since I'm more a terminal
guy than a graphics one anyhow, so building apple scripts, bash scripts,
or just finding command-line apps to do what I want is no problem at
all. If you need graphical interfaces for your work, obviously, your
mileage will vary, but honestly, I've never found anything I can't do
with my mac. Admittedly, there are not many games for the mac (though
I've tried to help with that by porting anything I can get my hands on
that looks like it might be useful, though at the moment, my mac pages
are out of service due to several factors, including switching hosts
recently. So things aren't as settled as they might otherwise be, but
still, I don't find macs any harder to find programs for than any of my
linux boxes, it only takes a bit of knowledge of where to look, and
experience compiling your own programs. I realize not everyone likes or
even wants to do this sort of thing, and I suppose in that case, a mac
may not be up to par for that kind of person, but to be honest, these
days, I won't even use a program unless I can download and compile from
scratch if I so choose, (and I often do), which is why I primarily use
linux and freeBsd these days, though I still have windows machines (that
get used rarely, maybe 3 times in the last 10 years or so), and since
I've been enjoying my raspberry pi lately, even my mac gets turned on
less and less these days, but that in no way deminishes it's usability.
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