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Originally Posted by Katsunami
...Yes. I don't know anyone not running Linux, who actually uses the operating system actively to get work done, aside from the file manager...
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I am not making a claim on this, just wondering. What about real time systems using Windows (Windows is widely used for SCADA, for example)?
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
...To be honest, not much has changed in my daily usage; apart from ripping CD's to FLAC and managing e-books I still do the same things as I was doing in 1998. Sometimes I long for the days in which an operating system was like 6-7 MB after installation (MS-DOS 6.22), or around 25 MB, if you had Windows 3.1 installed.
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Maybe there is a market for a stripped down version of Windows, although I have an idea that Microsoft have already had a go with that and dumped the concept (I have no experience of that end of the market).
Regarding your comment on X-Windows my only exposure to it was back around 1990 when I was managing a number of large CCC projects, so not that long after it was developed. Those did not use it but some others being built in the same software factory were, I don't know if it was the best that was available then (under an economy, free I believe, and capability test) but it seemed to be regarded highly enough to be used in a very sophisticated environment back then. Perhaps it is junk now, I don't know except that it seems to still be around in real time systems.