I'm thinking there's probably a difference to be found in how excited people get about, say, getting a new computer. That left me about a decade ago now. My last several PC purchases have been entirely out of necessity and the only one I've made "for fun" has turned out to be annoying. - ThreadSky

techconnectify.bsky.social • 102 days ago

I'm thinking there's probably a difference to be found in how excited people get about, say, getting a new computer.

That left me about a decade ago now. My last several PC purchases have been entirely out of necessity and the only one I've made "for fun" has turned out to be annoying.

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strayling.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hence the popularity of retro-computing. There aren't any fundamentally different architectures competing with each other in the same space at the moment.

Buying a new graphics card doesn't have the same thrill as switching from a C64 to an Amiga.

techconnectify.bsky.social•102 days ago

Because to me, it is an appliance. And it has always been an appliance!

I know my way around it pretty well and I use some pretty heavy applications for my job but the machine it just a way I can get my job done. And I trust it so little that all of my work is done on portable drives!

zufiri.bsky.social•102 days ago

That's why there's always going to be a disconnect with a lot of Linux users, especially younger ones. It's far more of a hobby and obsession than an appliance used for work. Any criticism of it is criticism towards something they're deeply invested in. Which I get, I've spent as much time--

zufiri.bsky.social•102 days ago

customizing my setup in various ways than I have in some single player games. But it's very difficult to have healthy discussions on what is, at the end of the day, a tool when most people you'll find on the internet don't treat it like one.

sebastiano.dev•102 days ago

I had a similar identitarian approach to computer and mobile OSes too. Thankfully that's gone many years ago with the realisation that they all have good and bad sides, like any tool, and which one works best for you depends mostly on you.

lostintech.co.uk•102 days ago

You need more RGB then

pwnyslaystation.bsky.social•102 days ago

Yeah, it's the same with a lot of things. Like cars. Some people are super interested in them and care about a whole bunch of things that others don't. Also matters how you're using it. I finally went Linux full time because I found Windows so annoying. It wasn't really ideological or "fun"-based

pwnyslaystation.bsky.social•102 days ago

But it really depends what you're using it for and where your personal bugbears lie

stevebonds.com•102 days ago

This reminds me to the 25 year old book, "The Invisible Computer" by the author of "The Design of Everyday Things"

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262640411/the-invisible-computer/

We still have not managed to properly wrangle the complexity that computers offer. Probably the closest we've come is the iPhone.

graffias79.bsky.social•102 days ago

Tangentially - this is why I love retro computers. They are from a time when having and using a computer was fun and unique and not just an appliance or tool associated with work.

adriansdigitalbasement.com•102 days ago

Same, I think it's why my nostalgia and feeling of retro totally ends with the PII/III/P4 era. That's when computers became a commodity and were all mostly undifferentiated. Just a beige box to get some work done...

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