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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2006-04-21
I only used RISC OS for a while back in the early nineties, but I remember thinking it rocked (despite the odd-coloured keys!). I think the RISC OS desktop ("Pinboard") is one of the easiest-to-use and best looking out there.
Alas, I'm too poor to buy an Iyonix (more precisely, to be able to run it on top of all the other electronic equipment in the house). Maybe someday we'll get RPCemu working on Linux...