sillywalk

> RISC OS is that clean legacy free desktop

Uh, legacy free? I'd argue the opposite - it's got tons of legacy baggage - cooperative multitasking, and a lot is written in old ARM assembly language. It's disk limitations, filetypes.

> And it's still alive and still updated and works well on modern hardware.

I am quite impressed that the bounties that are put out to improve it get funded. (to be clear, this is not sarcasm , there's tens of thousands of pounds £s donated). I've tried in on my Pi, and it's super snappy, if a little odd.

Platinum and the BeOS/Haiku GUI are still my favourites. Imagine being able to distinguish a control from a label. Or not using abstract monochrome icons. Not in 2026 unfortunately.

Now get off my lawn.

I can't remember if it had General MIDI, but I'll give a nod to the Gravis Ultrasound. I couldn't afford / justify a full one, so I got the ACE version. Of course the use of midi for games was almost gone by then.

> no native graphics, which is why today the X11 graphics system is being removed and replaced with a new one, Wayland.

I'm not disagreeing with your general points, just being pedantic about the "time bits".

Wayland has been the default for even enterprise distros since 2019, and Wayland was created in 2008, so not new, but newer than X11.

I think it looks like City 17 from Half Life 2 - which I believe was supposed to be a vaguely European City.

I think I prefer the ambience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution better.

I'd love(? fear) to see a remake of the original Deus Ex in

I believe the original Toy Story was 'created' on SGIs, but the render farm was SPARC.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

First European deliveries in 2028. It's sad that the line was shutdown for years, forcing them to rebuild a supply chain. That sounds like a nightmare. Even as wildfires got worse and were and are expected to get more worse. So it goes.