[ndriscoll]

We do of course still have this in modern computing with Linux/KDE. Stable, snappy, and does exactly what you ask. The computer doesn't get in your way, nor does it try to get you to do something else. It just does what you tell it to do, immediately.

[linguae]

Yup, desktop Linux and other FOSS systems like ReactOS and Haiku are the last bastions of personal computing that haven’t been made into platforms that nag and upsell us.