Linked by Chris Wraight on Mon 11th Sep 2006 17:45 UTC
Being a RISC OS user is an odd experience. It's normally baffling to non-believers why so many (mostly British) computer users persist with the eccentric beast. It's easy to list reasons why no self-respecting geek would trouble with it: many old or under-developed applications, poor streaming media support, lack of compatibility with key standards and technologies, limited hardware support, and there are many more. For most, RISC OS is a thing of the past, a curio, a once-promising minority OS trampled on by the juggernauts of Windows, MacOS and Linux.
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Exactly my thoughts too: I used BeOS as my main OS for 2 years and then dropped it for Linux. But reading this article about RISC OS, made me feel just like when I was using BeOS and noone understood just why in the name of God I'm so stubborn to let it go.
As for the final phrase ("And when was the last time Windows did that for you?"), it made my day! 
Great article!
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2005-07-06
But I still like it. It makes me smile. And when was the last time Windows did that for you?
*sigh* I cannot remember. The last desktop I've used that made me smile was BeOS.
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