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by cryo32 38 days ago
Yep even the later ones. I used to sit in front of a Solaris CDE desktop locked in a basement. Made me want to slit my wrists. The colour scheme, how it worked, the peformance. All horrible.

I used RISC OS at home. Was wonderful to come back to that.
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Sophira 37 days ago
Ooo, a rare fellow home RISC OS user! I had an A3000 at home myself so I didn't have the benefit of using RISC OS with a hard drive, and we never upgraded to an ARM3, but we did use both RISC OS 2 and 3.

Still love the old Acorn machines. I mostly use Arculator[0] nowadays for that nostalgia though.

[0] https://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/

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cryo32 37 days ago
Brilliant. Yeah there were a few of us back in the day! Had an A440 then a RiscPC 700 here. Hard disk made all the difference even if it was only a 40MB one!

There's a nice emulator here, a WebAssembly RiscPC one. Works quite well: https://rpcemu.m-h.org.uk/

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Sophira 37 days ago
I have a local version of RPCemu too, but I never had a Risc PC myself so it's not as interesting to me; we got a PC about half a year after Windows 95 released.

Have you come across the Stardot[0] community yet? I feel like you'd enjoy it. Fair warning: it's more focused on the Acorn computers themselves (both 8-bit and 26/32-bit) than the continuing development of RISC OS. That said, I personally think it's great.

[0] https://www.stardot.org.uk/

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lproven 37 days ago
> I used RISC OS at home. Was wonderful to come back to that.

Same here.

Windows 2 and Mac System 6 at work, RISC OS 2 at home -- faster, more responsive, more capable and flexible, and much better looking.

Some of my friends had Amigas and to me, oh wow was AmigaOS 1.x fugly.

40 years later, KDE still is.

GNOME is beautiful but it's so limited it feels like trying to operate a mouse and keyboard with my feet while sitting on my hands.

COSMIC feels fast and powerful, but it is not easy on the eyes, and the keyboard UI is poor.

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