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bitigchion Commodore 64 Guides

An invaluable action for preserving heritage.

bitigchion Make Linux look like Windows 95

It's possible to disable toolbars and use a menu-bar/shortcut oriented workflow like in the Classic Mac OS.

bitigchion A new wave of Linux applications

Yet they work in a totally different manner (not in the better sense).

bitigchion The Life of MS-DOS

Why not contribute to FreeDOS?

bitigchion LibreOffice 7.3

Pushing a new rendering engine without extensively testing it on a new OS release is simply nuts.

bitigchion LibreOffice 7.3

Did you open a bug report with the said document? You might never know, the corner case with your specific document might be fixed by a willing developer.

bitigchion LibreOffice 7.3

Nice. Seems like it includes lots of improvements for OOXML compatibility.

bitigchion Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement

Thanks for all the work! When do you think it would be production ready?

bitigchion Framework Raises $18M Series A

I wish they'd allow configuring the keyboard layout, at least for most spoken languages of the world.

bitigchion How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)

You can open a bug report or post your findings to the mailing list.

bitigchion Show HN: Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client

Reminded me of how Safari for Windows actually had a native Windows UI.

bitigchion Framework vs. Apple

I felt sorry for the laptop. I cannot imagine the working conditions it had to suffer. It's probably a dust haven inside, and the keyboard has never been cleaned once.

bitigchion Notepad++ v8.2 Released

There is no other third party text editor more efficient and lightweight than Notepad++ on Windows. I only use Notepad++ on Windows, to save my CPU cycles and RAM.

bitigchion The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

It's pleasant to hear that lots of FOSS software benefited from this effort.

bitigchion Kakoune Code Editor

I'd like to try, but it does not support translations. I prefer using software only in my native language.

bitigchion Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

This makes it sound like only Pop_OS! has the applications listed for it and they are not available for macOS.

It's also funny that macOS has application installs sorted and the Pop_OS side starts listing paths. :))

bitigchion Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal

I am not sure if it's only me, but as time passes I find myself using more and more simple Terminal stuff. No fancy air/earth lines, no fancy formatting, no fancy ligatures or typefaces.

bitigchion Vim9 Script Feature-Complete

When did he reject? To my knowledge, he didn’t reject anything.

bitigchion Vim9 Script Feature-Complete

Those patches were broken to begin with when submitted to Vim, and never got fixed until NeoVim was forked out of the blue. People generally don’t know the details of this, and blindly blame Bram.

bitigchion Vim9 Script Feature-Complete

I think he does not like to go with the flow, but instead implement things the way he thinks best suited and best performant with Vim. I don't think he cares about NeoVim.

bitigchion Vim9 Script Feature-Complete

It was the result of a poll:

1 - https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/__gARXMigYE/m/iskHVwgU...

2 - https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3573

bitigchion My progress in porting Wine

No graphics acceleration yet though.

bitigchion My progress in porting Wine

2022 seems like it will be a great year for Haiku:

- They have a (one) full-time developer working on the general stability of the system and better hardware and general driver support (and many more things)

- X512 still tackling graphics acceleration, compositing, multi-monitor support and occasional cool stuff like this

- ARM/ARM64 port seeing active commits

- Much better Intel graphics hardware support merged already

- QtWebEngine already ported and opening the way for working web browsers

- Native WebKit port preparing for upstreaming and WebPositive again seeing fixes after a long time

If the project had better financials, it would greatly help securing the project's continuous development.

bitigchion Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants

Oh Japan, never change.

bitigchion Don't Fuck with Big Sugar

Sounds like a scene from Parks & Rec.

bitigchion Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)

Haiku is still alive, no need to look for other things in other OSs. :)