[Oberon] Has V4 got <default font> like in S3's Oberon.Text ?

[eas lab]

Liam Proven wrote:-
>UEFI is a horror. I loathe it. On my own machines, I disable it. On my
> work desktop, that is not an option and I had to install Win10 just to
> get the machine to boot from its own hard disk. 2 of us, its former
> owner and myself, spend weeks trying to get a clean Linux-only install
> to boot and failed. UEFI is a part of MS' usual "embrace & extend"
> strategy to fight Linux.
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That exactly confirms my complaint/warning-to-others.
Thank you for acknowledging my so called *TROLL*.

== CRG.


On 11/22/20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 03:49, eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >My work Dell Latitude dual-boots openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE
>> >...plus N other non M$spook intallations ...
>
> No. I work for a Linux vendor. My laptop has no MS OS or other OS
> installed other than 2 versions of Linux.
>
>> With the latest elCheapo Chinese Laptops, the office-girls can't be
>> expected to know how to bypass the UEFI <lock>.
>
> What has that got to do with the price of fish?
>
>> Are you trying to deny that M$hit is succeeding to maintain their
>> monopolistic grip on the market ?!
>
> They are absolutely failing, yes. ChromeBooks sold in the region of
> 25% of the entire desktop + laptop PC market last year. (Linux is far
> *far* larger if you count servers, as well.) Meanwhile, Apple has a
> larger share of the laptop market *by value*. It does not release
> sales numbers, but given that Apple laptops cost more than most PC
> ones, and 5-10x the average price of a ChromeBook, the numbers are
> small but the money is big.
>
> Windows is a shrinking platform, more rapidly than ever before, and
> more every year.
>
> UEFI is a horror. I loathe it. On my own machines, I disable it. On my
> work desktop, that is not an option and I had to install Win10 just to
> get the machine to boot from its own hard disk. 2 of us, its former
> owner and myself, spend weeks trying to get a clean Linux-only install
> to boot and failed. UEFI is a part of MS' usual "embrace & extend"
> strategy to fight Linux.
>
> However, I don't use Windows at work, at all, ever. It was basically
> there to write an EFI system partition and bootloader, and since then,
> for reflashing firmware.
>
> You do have choices.
>
> If you hate Windows, don't run Windows.
>
> FWIW: I also have an X200 Thinkpad which is running native
> A2/Bluebottle on the bare metal. It works very well. It was an
> absolute pig to install -- in the end, I had to run the OS in a
> VirtualBox VM under Devuan, attach the destination partition to the VM
> as a local drive, and install into that.
>
> However, once done, it works fine. I use the old PowerQuest Bootmagic
> bootloader on that machine, and I told it partition 2 was called A2
> and it just boots it, no questions asked.
>
> Ethernet internet access works. Both cores and all 4GB of the RAM are
> detected. USB works. I have no wifi, but I don't think A2 supports
> wifi at all.
>
> (FWIW Wifi works fine under Haiku on that machine.)
>
> The X200 is one of the all-time best laptops ever made:
>
> https://operand.ca/2018/03/20/why-i-am-choosing-the-x200-in-2018.html
>
> https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html?
>
> ... but it's a Core 2 Duo, meaning that they sell for just £50 or so
> nowadays.
>
> If you run Windows, it's because you choose to run Windows. If you
> chose it, you don't get to complain. If you don't like it, choose
> something different.
>
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