Youtube hearted comments of James LaBarre (@SenileOtaku).

  1. Part of the problem here is the mad obsessive rush to eliminate bezels. If you had a proper bezel all around the screen, there would be plenty of space to make a more robust frame for the screen/lid. I'd rather have a thicker lid if it meant the system could hold up to actual USAGE. Same for the base; I'd prefer it to be thicker if it meant I could have a bigger (removable too) battery, removable memory and an upgradable hard drive. Of course, that means I won't be buying Apple products, doesn't it? Not enthusiastic about some of the "PC" laptops these days either.
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  2. I've started switching back to Linux Mint after a few years of using Fedora Linux (no longer at RH, so no longer have my inside connections for Fedora, and don't feel the need to support company projects). My primary desktop and laptop will probably be on Fedora for a while, but next time I decide to do a full rebuild I'll move over.
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  3. #5 - not only visible and usable scrollbars, but they absolutely MUST have scroll arrows. #1 - And BOY are you right about Linux picking up the bad habit of "feature changes". The GNOME Project just loves to break everything for anyone else dependent on GTK+. And they have such a vehement hatred of themes, they've decided to pick up the boneheaded Microsoft practice where you can't configure the appearance, AND there is no way to differentiate foreground and background windows, because they've forced them to look exactly the same. I don't think the GNOME folke use their computers for actual WORK.
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  4. A couple more things people would find different on those early boards. Your '386SX board still has the old-style CMOS battery. On older systems the battery types varied from system to system. Your board has a barrel-battery, soldered permanently to the backplane. Others might have had a blocky rectangular battery (don't even remember the type/number of them) that plugged onto a connector on the board. And then there were the Dallas Semiconductor combination clock/battery socketed onto the board, (theoretically replaceable, never had to do it myself). Then there's that horrible power connector. It had thin metal connectors that slid into the power supply connectors (yes, two-piece connector) which you had to be sure to plug in the right way (as I remember, black wires to center). You had to be VERY careful installing them so that you didn't bend/break them. And on that Pentium II board; the connector you said was a mouse connector looks more like a power connector. I would have thought it was the CPU fan power, except the fan on yours is 3-wire, and the board connector there is 4-pin. But then again, board designers were known to make poor engineering decisions like that.
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  5. As I remember, FAT32 didn't exist at the time NTFS first came out (it was meant to take the functional place of HPFS as used in OS/2). It addressed the limitations of FAT16. And don't forget ReiserFS; I hear it's a real killer of a filesystem...
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  6. Older machines might not run MSWin11? That would seem more like a feature rather than a defect.
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