For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.

You have backups? Right?

Ah! The glory days!

Found the Java programmer…

It also says cake day underneath the 2 years ago, or at least I see it on the web client.

That’s not true anymore, there’s distros like Alpine which are not built using gnu tools.

How else are they going to get you to buy a support contract. If it was easy, you wouldn’t need it.

Nobody expects bash to be remotely sane!

Or even better, a different bug!

Yeah, not even JavaScript is that insane!

Antivaxx is nonsense everywhere

I dare say that you could replicate the same mess in C#, PHP, Python, C++, or any other object oriented language. Just because people write bad code, it doesn’t mean the language is bad.

So I suppose you never use a browser to run a web application on the desktop :thinking_face: Anyway it;s a client server architecture designed for remote installation on servers as well as local installations. It makes sense to have one installer do both.

As to the old installer, when you knew about the un-obvious features, it was brilliant from a user perspective, but I’m willing to bet that from a developer perspective, it was hard to maintain, hard to add new features to, and fragile.

That’s kind of like asking why we’re not all driving Ford Model T cars, after all you could drive in them just fine. Technology moves on, best practice moves on, Hell, everything moves on.

A quick glance at the Agama repository suggests that the server is written in rust and the front end in react. I’ve no idea how it all works in practice as I don’t use Tumbleweed any more. I really liked the yast installer but it was getting old.

Why isn’t everyone working on Arch instead of wasting time with all those other distros?

How often do you look at your keyboard anyway?

More than I care to admit!