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Will the offline mode work on laptops?

I use both: they are extremely fast - faster than Wordpad (on a native windows installation), much faster than libreoffice (on linux with wine).

> it's like systemd trading off non-determinism for boot speed, when it takes 5 minutes to get through the POST

That's a bad analogy: if a given deterministic service ordering is needed for a service to correctly start (say because it doesn't start with the systemd unit), it means the non-deterministic systemd service units are not properly encoding the dependencies tree in the Before= and After=

When done properly, both solutions should work the same. However, the solution properly encoding the dependency graph (instead of just projecting it on a 1-dimensional sequence of numbers) will be more flexible: it's the better solution, because it will give you more speed but also more flexibility: you can see the branches any leaf depends on, remove leaves as needed, then cull the useless branches. You could add determinism if you want, but why bother?

It's like using the dependencies of linux packages, and leaving the job of resolving them to package managers (apt, pacman...): you can then remove the useless packages which are no longer required.

Compare that to doing a `make install` of everything to /usr/local in a specific order, as specified by a script: when done properly, both solutions will work, but one solution is clearly better than the other as it encodes more finely the existing dependencies instead of projecting them to a sequence.

You can add determinism if you want to follow a sequence (ex: `apt-get install make` before adding gcc, then add cuda...), or you can use meta package like build-essentials, but being restricted to a sequence gains you nothing.

Very interesting link!

Submitted!

> Cosmopolitan is neat hack, but it's not a viable multiplatform executable format, runtime sysytem, or distribution mechanism.

It's the best we have to ensure programs will be kept running. The multiple payloads are like a rosetta stone.

If I had 1 wish, I would make wine support sixel output + VNC to a localhost port + webgl or equivalent to extend this redundancy to GUIs

> Something like WASM + WASI seems much more likely to fulfill this function in the future.

Time will tell, but given 2 binaries (Sun Java vs Windows i386) from the same time period, the one that was "much more likely to fulfill this function in the future" is much harder to use

p-code is a neat technology, but failing at what it was supposed to achieve

I wanted to limit the space needed on the EFI, and keep as much as possible on the Windows partition because there's also the question of where the bitlocker key would go.

With something like a chainloader using a special part of the NTFS partition posing as bad blocks, Windows could "remove" this access easily, without having to touch the EFI partition or the boot variables.