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If you want something that will truly wrack your logic-solving brain, this ol' Linux game definitely will do the trick...
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I never got past the first tier. Might've figured out the first 4-5 puzzles, but that was it.
Sorry, doesn't run in Windoze.
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I second this! Last Windows OS I could tolerate (or even partially enjoy) was Win 7. After that, it's all downhill from there.
EDIT: I run Ubuntu 18.04 LTS x64 at the time of this post. Need to upgrade to 20.04 LTS...but don't feel like reinstalling everything just yet.
Hey, you are missing a few cases of Broken Windows. WFWG 3.11 was a good one until they broke just about everything in Lose 95. And then there was Windows ME and Bob. And what about Win 2K Pro which actually worked decent.
Hey, you are missing a few cases of Broken Windows. WFWG 3.11 was a good one until they broke just about everything in Lose 95. And then there was Windows ME and Bob. And what about Win 2K Pro which actually worked decent.
Well, I hav'ta admit, it's kinda hard to frame a broken pile of glass 🤣.
Windows 98 was a pretty good OS which was destroyed by windows ME. Then Windows XP was awesome, after a couple of service packs. It was too good. It just kept going and going. MS learned their lesson. Never again would they make such a sturdy and long lasting OS. XP still runs my CNC machine. The source code has been leaked but it would be nice if MS would officially release the code so that the amateur community could construct a truly great Windows-like OS.
Have you heard of ReactOS? That's largely the concept behind it: https://reactos.org/
React is a nice idea but I think I'll be dead from old age before they get to a release version and TBH WINE on *nix will meet most people's needs to run a Windows program without Windows.
IMO Microsoft releasing the source code for anything close to a current version of Windows would only happen just before they drop Windows. perhaps moving to a compatibility layer in linux etc. 'Next' versions of Windows aren't built in a vacuum. It's an evolutionary process rather than revolutionary, to the point where a vulnerability found in a current version of Windows has a pretty high chance of existing in a discontinued version if that vulnerability isn't in some truly new thing that didn't exist in any form in the old version. Releasing, say, Windows NT3.1 source code would still give away far too many secrets, methods and concepts that exist today in Windows 10.
The biggest reason that Windows XP was so successful is that Windows XP was built upon a rewrite of the then very stable and robust window 2000 kernel and base OS and people became used to using it at work or at school. Windows XP actually inherited most of the driver support of Windows 2000. Windows ME was mostly a flop because it suffered from all of the driver support issues of the windows 98SE and windows 95 eras since it was based on the same code base of it's predecessors. Windows XP basically marked the turning point when M$ decided having one kernel and OS subsystem software stack was a far better for all versions of windows moving forward than trying to maintain and fix everyone else's broken drivers and code. Windows Vista brought about the further push to make and driver architecture better across all devices that were being supported in windows along with a lot of improvements in software and memory management. The nice thing is that you can often install drivers for a piece of hardware that hasn't had drivers since windows vista or windows 7 and it will often install and work properly even on the latest version of Windows 10. That being said, is wonder if the next version of Windows M$ is talking about will continue with the same kernel architecture or if they will break everything and try something new. I do hear talk of further Linux support within windows but I wonder what that will result in.
As it is now I prefer having my Linux and BSD systems completely separate from my windows systems and don't really need everything to be the same as long as filesystem support is there and the systems can at least talk to each other.
You could take a miniport driver from NT3.5 and install it on NT4 and Windows 2000 too. The layers above, and below the driver would recognise that the driver didn't import / export certain hooks / functions and not try to use them. Cutler really did his homework when the basic framework of NT was penned.
I wonder if I should try my Warp Server Beta in one of my laptops. 😁
This thread got nerdy fast. I love it.
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