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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2005-11-16
ROX certainly emulates some of the look and feel of RISC OS. It provides a highly usable file manager that's very like the RISC OS filer, along with an iconbar that is superficially similar to the RISC OS feature. But in the same way that adding a Dock clone and Aqua themed window manager to Linux doesn't turn it into Mac OS X, ROX doesn't really come close to replicating the full RISC OS experience. If it did then people wouldn't stick with the real thing.
A huge part of the RISC OS experience is the consistent design of its applications, the elegant way they use the menu system, and other RISC OS features like its pervasive drag and drop between apps. Of course any RISC OS like Linux DE will lack that when it's running Linux apps that aren't specifically designed for it.