[Virtualacorn-list] {Spam?} RISC OS Awards - was: Iyonix back then

[Bob Ardler]

On Linux's RiscOS-like GUI, Alan Adams wrote:
> While Linux has the GUI, it can't run the applications. The only way
> to do that it to run an emulator, which will be back to single-core
> operation.
and David J. Ruck wrote:

> Linux works very well these days as a desktop environment anyone can
> pick up and use, you don't need to be a command line hacker if you
> don't want to be.
>
> There is a large choice of desktops, including some which have filers
> and task bars reminiscent of RISC OS, just as there are ones which mimic
> Windows XP. However, RISC OS applications wont run under Linux, and
> Linux applications wont work with the RISC OS like desktop components in
> the way a RISC OS user would expect, such as dragging save as boxes to
> filer Windows.
>
> Linux is very well worth adopting to do the things that RISC OS can't
> (certainly when the alternative is Windows 10), but don't expect to use
> it like RISC OS.

It took weeks to recover from a lung infection and catch up with missed
work & house maintenance, leading to a discourteously late response.
Linux isn't, then, a way of attaining a RiscOSic environment (including
applications) with full javascripted internet access. So it's a fergeddit
fernow: back to switching between OSs depending what's doing. (Since one's
being progressively & gently sacked for the crime of reaching Liz
Windsor's age it might be fun, once loose, to have a bash at Linux -- but
not now).

Belated thanks to both sages,
Bob.
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