Windows 95 on the PinePhone?

[Peter Gamma]

does it work?:

https://betanews.com/2021/01/05/new-windows-95/

[barray]

does it work?:

https://betanews.com/2021/01/05/new-windows-95/

You only need to be able to run Electron - so probably yes, but it will be incredibly slow. Also Electron can be quite RAM heavy, so things will get really awful if you hit swap.

[ryo]

yup...

[marcih]

[image of Win95 on the PP]
yup...

Kickass... :O

[KC9UDX]

Yay! Now you can BSOD. What fun..

[slate]

Haha, that'll be interesting.. I was watching this the other day thinking it'd be ideal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg

Not a massive fan of the path mobile development went down, and that it dragged the desktop experience with it.

[Peter Gamma]

Many good things start small. But I'm waiting for a phone, which can run Windows 10 desktop apps.

[TRS-80]

But why though? Microsoft have been famously hostile towards F/LOSS for many years now (decades in fact).

We are just starting to begin to be able to Have Nice Things™ (no thanks to them).

Let them (and others like them with similar dinosaur business models) just die off already.

[Peter Gamma]

Because most of the sofware I use is for windows 10. But is a virual machine with windows 10 on a phone attractive? More attractive is an OS which fits to the processor. Windows 10 desktop phones are not in sight. I asked this question before in this forum. More interesting is software like GNU Octave, which runs on Linux and can run Matlab software like EEGLAB. But I'm still waiting for a PinePhone with more RAM, and a processor which is as powerful as possible.

[KC9UDX]

That's why we're stuck with Windows. Everyone wants to use it because everyone uses it because everyone wants to use it. Get the software developer to port to a better OS, or write your own software. That's what I tend to do. I ditched Wintel when Windows 95 proved inevitable.

The fastest possible processor will never be as fast as the next one. So wait for the next one.