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by RalfWausE 1334 days ago
A coworker of me never switched from DOS to Windows (he told me he tried it a few times but... meh), recently i helped him getting his new(-ish) Lenovo workstation set up with FreeDOS 1.3.

So... it IS possible to stay on a system where you are comfortable with, if you are willing to make concessions...
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awiesenhofer 1334 days ago
Wow, what does he use it for? Any specific apps you know about?
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RalfWausE 1334 days ago
He mostly uses it for embedded programming, but also does the finances for a club he is in via a spreadsheet (As-easy-as) and does write the occasional letter in (if i remember correctly) wordstart. For emails and web he uses Arachne (with a hack that allows arachne to fetch https via wget).
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Paianni 1334 days ago
Wow, talk about living in the 90s...
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