Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003) • Hacker News Board

Re: Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

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Post by bestouff » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 8:39 AM UTC

Seattle3503 wrote: post #153

bestouff wrote: post #140

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My fav is this : > Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. This is so true, and not only under Windows. Install any modern program under any modern OS and have a look at the filesystem, it's a flaming mess. Nowadays the only solution "smart people" have found…

Rust and Go can create a single statically linked executable and they are very popular. It could become a thing.

I really enjoy single-executable Rust things - that's what I use for building web apps (SSR). But it's not that widespread (for now ?).

Re: Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

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Post by bestouff » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

1718627440 wrote: post #225

bestouff wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My fav is this : > Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. This is so true, and not only under Windows. Install any modern program under any modern OS and have a look at the filesystem, it's a flaming mess. Nowadays the only solution "smart people" have found…

That's why I like the "managed" model Debian uses. Programs are enforced to comply to the OS standards. If they don't, they either get changed by the Debian maintainers or just not included into the distribution. That's why I can know where things are in my filesystem.

I love Debian so much. The amount of work done by volunteers is staggering, and the result is impeccable.

Re: Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

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Post by strideashort » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

dvh wrote: post #66

In 2002 after spending my first 30 minutes on windows XP (previously 98, 95 and 3.11 user) I realized that Microsoft will never improve their UX. Every new os will be different, but not better. So I left then and there and never looked back, after some distro tourism I settled on Ubuntu in 2006 and use it even now.

Gnome was pretty good until they did exactly the same.