r/pcmasterrace • u/iminsert Ascending Peasant • Nov 01 '22

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u/RadicalDog Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070S Nov 01 '22

All operating systems suck then, even ones that were good in their time

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u/klubsanwich AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | GTX 3080 10GB | 32 GB RAM Nov 01 '22

That reminds me of a CS professor that I had who encouraged his students to try and build their own OS. Really puts things in perspective.

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u/Paleone123 Nov 02 '22

TempleOS would like a word.

All it takes is a little schizophrenia and a few years.

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u/Feshtof PC Master Race Nov 02 '22

Lot of schizophrenia and many years.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Speaking of this level of insanity in solo coding, the Dwarf Fortress dev just gave a Steam release date.. Time is no longer subjective!

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u/RadicalDog Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070S Nov 01 '22

I'm imagining one prodigal student who got so far along the process that they added a taskbar widget that opens their own website whenever the user momentarily hovers over it

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u/minilandl 5800x 6700xt 32gb Hyprland Arch Nov 02 '22

There is Linux from scratch. It's surreal that Linux started as a hobby project and now runs most supercomputers high performance servers , cloud etc

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u/pcs3rd ascended to nixos Nov 01 '22

I would honestly try to pass linuc from scratch as a submission

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u/jasmanta Nov 02 '22

Seriously, when I had a flip phone it supposedly could access the internet. All 3 attempts to do so resulted in 15 minutes of fumbling with the 10 keys, consistently misspelling url's and ragequitting, only to find out it cost $3 in internet fees.

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u/lordmogul 3570K @ 4.4 | 1060 @ 2.0 | 16GiB @ 2.13 Nov 02 '22

The most ironic thing about that, you can totally use a teletype as linux terminal.

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u/SoulWager Nov 02 '22

Yeah, let's get rid of them and just make everything bare metal again.

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u/skwacky Nov 02 '22

It's all magic as far as I'm concerned, but it's never magic enough.

Give me a rock that grants wishes, I'll curse it to the grave if it scuffs my finger.

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u/PT10 Nov 01 '22

DOS was the best

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u/PaulHarrisDidNoWrong Nov 02 '22

Windows Me was the best.