Oh, also this is not an industrial setting with a computer controlling some heavy equipment. This is a nostalgia lab. MSDOS was the thing when I was around 22 or so.

I am still figuring out DOS networking.
Update - The on-board Ethernet is a Realtec of some sort

Anyone remember the castaway? The adventures of a guy on a one-tree desert island.

My dedicated machine ignores disk swap on 2 of the 3 USB drives I have. The third one seems to be ok though.

This is The Way.

FreeDOS is running on a dedicated i5 desktop with 8gb ram. I wanted to get a period correct desktop machine to run MSDOS 6.22 but all the “Electronic Surplus” places have all dried up. So I built the least powered machine I could (Well I could have used an i3, but the difference in price was only $10.00. I only put in 1 of the smallest memory sticks they had …)

I have a dos running in DOSBOX, but it’s not the same as real hardware, and it’s not easy to use a usb floppy drive with it. With my dedicated machine I can even boot from floppy if I want/need to.

RIP Weird Stuff, Halted Specialties, The one that used to be near the Oakland Airport and others I remember but don’t remember their names. Not to mention the internet famous one in Texas - Computer Reset. Oh, now I am sad.

My production laptop is Debian, as is my server so I guess that would be the way to go then.

A Bard, an advanced story teller, One who draws pictures of things that never were (people with 3 arms for example), Lore from Star Trek. Don’t give it power to do anything on its own, always monitor it.

I refuse to let gaming preferences dictate my choice of operating system. I choose my OS first—Linux—because I demand full ownership of my computing environment. If an entity can extract data without your knowledge or control updates, shutdowns, or reboots against your will, they own your machine—not you. With Linux, I own my system entirely. I decide when updates happen, I control what data—if any—leaves my computer, and nothing happens without my explicit consent. My computer works for me, not someone else.

I have not progressed to the point where I can manage a structured language interpreter. The language I would write is sort of like assembler for a machine that works in Doubles.

Yes, Team Konsole!

It will also endanger those who’s life does not line up with accepted norms.

any with a dotted zero, extra points for italic.

Turnabout’s fair play.

I am using the latest Debian on an Asus Vivobook laptop.

My only issue is a thing I bring upon myself and is cosmetic. I use an external monitor on the laptop and for text fields I sometimes get spurious lines between rows of text, not an underline, but between the actual rows.

It is a little strange and I could just go back to using the laptop screen only if it bugged me too much, so the higher tolerance argument fits this I guess. Otherwise it has been really great. I used to use only the laptop’s monitor so I had no problems before with the setup I mentioned. I might just go back to use only the laptop’s monitor because I can use the external screen elsewhere.

In fact I think I will, It would be nicer to have a color screen for my Apple IIc+ :^)

I also have a desktop machine running Debian 12 semi headless (the monitor is turned off 90% of the time), this machine is a file storage, backup target, and sometimes an SSH target.

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KDE - Was Gnome, but I switched for a reason. I, uh, forgot the reason.

My ASUS Vivobook has a slider that blocks the camera physically. It is bright red so I can easily see it is closed.

I use a small band-aid - no gummy glue on the lens!

Debian lights up an icon in the System Tray. When I am ready I can either click on that icon to bring up the package manager GUI or I can open a Konsole window and run ‘sudo nala update’ then ‘sudo nala upgrade’. (Nala is a beautiful front end for apt)