The “doing good” thing is just a cover to avoid paying taxes. All the money Gates has donated just went to charities he set up and his heirs own/control…

Who has money for games?

I ran everything on 2000

A LOT of people ran 2000 on home computers. It was the half step before XP.

Pretty much anyone not buying a prebuilt ran 2000

No, not really.

It’s a bot account. Good luck reasoning with it

Those are silly comparisons.

How many distros have failed? How many Linux projects in general? (Since we’re comparing random shit)

OS/2

I actually bought DS3 twice, For the PS4 the first time, and couldn’t do anything. I’m not a console person by nature. Then I found out it was on PC, my jam, got it and OMG is that port shitty

Looks like that might be my next try. I haven’t had much luck so far :(

Fun true story. I tried EoP when I moved into my townhome to feed Ethernet to my TV. For like 6 months I get weird issues where my TV would stop letting me connect from my phone.

Trying to diagnose it, I started disconnecting stuff. Finally, I had a single EoP plugged into wall and nothing else. Still had Internet, WTF …

Turns out one of my neighbors also has EoP and I was connecting to his network. Crazy shit

Went to MoCA after that.

Yeah there are use cases

Yup, there is also Ethernet over coaxial cable TV.

It’s kinda niche, especially with improvements in WiFi over the years.

I played 1.6 competitively way back in leagues. There were spots where you learned to shoot at like 20-30 seconds into a match. If someone ran from the “other” start you knew they would be coming around certain corners.

You can also choose NOT to have a phone at all… Or a bank account.

Just because you personally don’t find something needed doesn’t mean it’s true for others.

You heathen!

Actually I don’t care.

Businesses live and die by if it broke don’t fix it.

They’re still a non insignificant number of businesses using Cobol applications.

Linux has been becoming a “serious threat” for 20+ years now. I’ll wait.

Don’t get me wrong I like Linux a lot. But if you step back and look objectively, it has a lot of issues trying to grow outside the hobby/enthusiast community for the desktop.

Yes, and I have no idea…

Nope, but they have extremely short memories. They spent 2 hours yesterday tinkering with 4 issues. But when you ask them, their system has been solid for months.

Linux is very much a boat. Or more accurately the same engine used in 50 different boats all with their own quirks.