Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre Date: 12 Aug 2025 02:27:14 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <1063lgp$jmj$2@reader1.panix.com> <1063ruo$2kgsj$3@dont-email.me> <10640fb$1gqnn$2@dont-email.me> <106411i$2l2gd$3@dont-email.me> <10646dg$1gqnn$3@dont-email.me> <1064ag9$1kvkq$1@dont-email.me> <1064m75$1lvr1$1@dont-email.me> <10667je$35rkf$2@dont-email.me> <106bdkb$2s14s$1@dont-email.me> <106bjgj$2t9mq$5@dont-email.me> <106cld0$33q3n$2@dont-email.me> <106l5kp$133ed$3@dont-email.me> <106ohbv$1q0ne$1@dont-email.me> <106olee$1r0v9$1@dont-email.me> <106v28o$3889m$1@dont-email.me> <20250806092812.00002de9@gmail.com> <6897438e$0$16825$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20250811112646.00004f89@gmail.com> <20250811151905.000075ea@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 84AB7WLFTJAmV0a8SHjCvQGZu0aq5DOhxfmlctR4ELKhXMK2BC Cancel-Lock: sha1:0lTxSM5NnGP2Z0/Xz71Ttlt4mLY= sha256:Yc/4AV3gLxeNJkd/d//0awHi0njrw/KRkshO8yfYc0I= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70825 On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:19:05 -0700, John Ames wrote: > On 11 Aug 2025 21:06:16 GMT rbowman wrote: > >> They tried. I heard they hired a coven of Wiccan witches to drive a >> stake into the heart of WinForms and they failed. Then there was UWP. >> "maybe if we rename it to MAUI they'll bite this time.' The Maui Wowie >> doesn't seem to be rolling off the shelves either. > > But I thought *Metro* was supposed to be the Universal Good-For-What- > Ails-Ya Future Of Everything Forever...! Man, all that effort put into > Windows Phone support, wasted - well, at least I can support Windows 10 > Mob...oh, wait...or, um, all those HoloLens devices everybody has... Even better, MS doesn't eat its own dog food. Want a cross platform IDE like VS Code? Electron! They may have money in the game but JavaScript, node, and the Chromium engine weren't exactly MS breakthroughs.