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points by tikhonj 1 day ago | 0 comments

or, maybe more hopefully, Windows as a whole becomes a legacy platform soon :)

Emacs is a serious tool, you choose it first and only then prioritize on the OS. It's like complaining that editing videos with Adobe Premiere on Linux is not a very solid experience, or something like that. Well, if you're a pro video-editor and you must use Premiere, then maybe you need a non-Linux box to do that?

[–] tikhonj 1 day ago

I like to tell people that consumer OSes are just Emacs hypervisors. And it's pretty clear which are better or worse :)

[–] iLemming 1 day ago

It's almost not even funny, but I tangle all my dotfiles from an org-mode file. The files it generates are all read-only - to discourage me from writing in them directly. This makes my OS config semi-immutable. Bootstrapping a system from scratch takes no longer than a few minutes and the biggest bottleneck is properly getting access to that dotfiles.org and installing Emacs. This has worked for years and that's why I never had to really learn Nix. I guess Emacs for me is the "true OS", and whatever on top is "just kernel stuff"

[–] pjmlp 1 day ago

Ask Valve how it is going with their plans to drop Proton.

[–] tikhonj 1 day ago

Proton is the shim for backwards compatibility with a messy legacy system. We've all been there.

And we've also seen how legacy systems refuse to die :(

[–] pjmlp 22 hours ago

What do we call 1970's OS design in 2026?

I have an idea, from someone famous in hacker circles,

"Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy"

-- Rob Pike

[–] gpderetta 1 day ago

that's like asking linux to drop posix :D

[–] globular-toast 1 day ago

Source?

[–] pjmlp 1 day ago

What source? It is quite obvious without Proton there are no games for SteamOS.

[–] internet_points 21 hours ago

pretty sure it was meant sarcastically