Windows 11 copied Linux theme style and UI LoL 😂

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

@Akito

Seriously, stop wasting your time on your old dumpster with a CPU and RAM in it and just buy new hardware. You can buy a used but pretty new laptop for about 200 to 300 bucks. Or if you are really short on money, you can even build your own 150 bucks PC that is just as good as a 300 bucks laptop.

And then there are some of us old tragic fanboys of things like Sparc architecture and other RISC platforms…
I’ve got a bunch of ‘old’ sparc systems lying around… the main one I only ever turn on is a Sunblade 2500 desktop tower system (I’ve got two - the other is ostensibly for parts) running Solaris 10 - it’s got 2 x 300 GB SCSI drives, dual uSparc (4v? 4u?) processors and 16 GB of ECC RAM… yeah - it’s a dinosaur… Can’t run Solaris 11… I’ve also got a Sun Ultra 5 (500 Mhz Sparc) beige desktop on my desk, but haven’t turned it on since I last ran OpenBSD on it (3+ years ago)… I kinda gave up on the sunblade 2500 when I wasted like 36 hours in total trying to get PovRAY 3.x raytracer to compile on it… the only solaris sparc binaries I could find for PovRAY were for Solaris 8 - and I doubt they’d work even in a Solaris 8 “zone” (Sun / Oracle “containers” - i.e. docker from before there was ever “docker”) - and ALL the doco for compiling PovRAY on UNIX assumed “Linux”… Anyway - also got a Sun IPX and 2 x Sparcstation 5s, and a Sun Ultra 1… cool shit in it’s day…

I’ve also got an ancient MCA bus (an early proprietary rival for PCI and EISA - my god EISA was a true piece of crap!) IBM RS/6000 with a 66 Mhz PowerPC “601” CPU (and I also have an ancient Apple PowerMac with a 601 PowerPC CPU - I ran MkLinux on it for a bit) - these things could run either AIX or Windows NT 3.x for PowerPC - I finally found a release of AIX 4.x I could run on it - but ran out of steam… probably won’t ever get around to firing it up…

And I’ve got two Silicon Graphics Indys - 64 bit RISC CPU from the 1990’s running 64 bit IRIX UNIX…
Trouble with all these ancient RISC “workstations” is they all run really annoying loud (and power hungry) SCSI hard drives…

I follow a bunch of vintage computer groups on facebook - but - it’s nearly all 8 bit stuff for the likes of Commodore and Sinclair, BASIC interpreters and CPM - ho hum… I’m only interested in stuff that ran UNIX and mostly RISC 32 bit (or 64 bit)…

I’d also love a Digital Alpha system to add to my collection… worked on a few of them over the years, in the late 1990’s you had three choices of O/S, Digital UNIX (AKA Tru64), OpenVMS and / or Windows NT 3.x or 4.x (Microsoft did release betas of Windows NT 5 [AKA Windows 2000] for Alpha - but on the release of Win2000 it was 32 bit i386 only)…