Old computers did it better!

[Garth Wilson]

(10-27-2018 08:29 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  

(10-26-2018 11:12 PM)Sukiari Wrote:  All modern Intel computers run Minix inside the hardware backdoor spy chip. They also run another proprietary OS called UEFI. You’re running two OS’s before you even boot the machine.

I was referring to the OS the end user interacts with. Most on that thread are comparing their old computers to Win/MAC and wondering why the new suck so much. They don't realize you can run a decent OS on new PC's (Linux, minix, FreeBSD, AROS, etc) and get close to the same experience as old computers.

I do run Linux (Ubuntu), and although 90% of my computer problems disappeared when I dumped MS and Windows, there are still times that it's apparently doing garbage collection or maybe has task-scheduling problems and may not respond to the keyboard or the mouse buttons for 15 seconds at a time! There's absolutely no excuse. This might be a Mozilla problem though, because I've only seen that problem with Firefox and Thunderbird. I know it's not disc-swapping, because the hard-disc light is not on. When the HP-41 is packing, at least it tells you why it's delaying.