Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by andai 30 days ago
There was a brief moment in history where we had the best of both worlds.

I grew up with Windows XP. We had most of these (except the titlebar buttons — although on second thought some custom Windows Media Player skins did have that, haha).

We all carried USB sticks around. So you always had your files with you. The computer itself was interchangeable, for the most part. (Which also led to my interest in portable apps.)
1 comments
andai 30 days ago
...and of course, Portable Apps require a relatively stable ABI...

https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

>Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux

Though macOS I think has a similar issue.

link