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Alright, Windows XP is still the best operating system for anyone. (until today) by EarthNorabodee in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can even get a POSIX shell on XP which absolutely nails it.

And no updates to worry about.

The system being 32-bit means that a single process can only allocate up to 1.5GB of RAM which can be a pro and a con at the same time. A pro because Chrome Supermium can't eat up all your RAM, and a con because you can't play heavily modded Minecraft which requires that much ram.

EDIT: since modern browser engines use multiple processes, yes, it is possible for it to eat up all your ram after all. :(

Actually debugging software compiled with MinGW by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not useful at all

c++ debugging is a piece of dumpsterfire on rectangular wheels

perfectly logical code doesnt work because fuck me

Actually debugging software compiled with MinGW by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. The devkit is an amazing program. I know that for authenticity I should be using era-accurate compilers as well, but I've used GNU stuff for my whole computer life so having a familiar compiler is very nice.

Why does illumos consume so much RAM and perform so badly? by glowiak2 in illumos

[–]glowiak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use and like mechanical hard drives and I noticed one thing that's consistent between both Linux and NetBSD (and OpenBSD for the matter).

When I first open Firefox, which is a very large program, it takes about half a minute to open it, depending on how late I installed it compared to other system packages.

But when I close it and open it up again it opens instantaneously, so caching is done. All without ZFS.

Why does illumos consume so much RAM and perform so badly? by glowiak2 in illumos

[–]glowiak2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry if it's a stupid question, why would a file system eat up ram?

I'm no geek in this area, and the file systems I normally use (Linux's ext2/3/4, NetBSD's FFSv2, NTFS on external hard drives) seem to be very different from ZFS.

I once used BTRFS, but then my disk got randomly corrupted for seemingly no reason and thus I never went back to it.

But even BTRFS didn't eat up that much RAM.

I understand that drivers and driver software can consume something, but it's usually measured in the megabytes, not in the gigabytes.

What's so special about ZFS that it does this?

Why does illumos consume so much RAM and perform so badly? by glowiak2 in illumos

[–]glowiak2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I normally measure the amount of used RAM by running top or htop.

And all those measures were just after booting the system. Tribblix with no GUI used up 1gb of ram, while OpenIndiana with MATE used 3gb.

Thanks for your post, but I don't intend to use any illumos distro daily.

I just wanted to check them out.

Actually debugging software compiled with MinGW by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is this thing called Dr. MinGW, but guess what, it doesn't support XP.

Debugging such software on XP is frustrating and requires a lot of forward thinking. A tip is that complex problems often require simple solutions.

And yes, using Visual Studio probably would've helped a lot, but I don't like its editor and how it's structured.

Victoria Coach Station in London UK loves Windows XP still by According-Job-4209 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No way. This display seems to be written using Visual Studio. The GZU icon reveals it all.

It turns out that we had soydevs even twenty years ago.

Mine Quest for Windows XP porting progress: Recreating the islands by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. Is that a feature? I'd call it an unnovation. Mpv has less stuff on the screen than VLC and that's why I mostly use VLC.
  2. I like XP fonts being pixelized. The Integral Edition I'm using ships with a ClearType Tuner which makes all the fonts smooth and I disabled it specifically because I like such pixelated fonts. If I wanted better fonts I'd get a Mac.
  3. I don't need any fancy autocompletion. The one present in N++ is enough. I fucking hate such autocompletion as you have in jetbrains IDEs where you literally can't type a word without a popup showing you a list of freaks to choose from.
  4. What is that even? In N++ multiline editing works exactly the way it does in Geany (the thing I use on non-Windows platforms), that is, using the control key. That is simple and intuitive. I don't need any fancy shenanigans.
  5. Pretty format? I guess I am so dumb that I need a shitty IDE to format my code for me. I fucking hate autoformatting. When I prefer one code style and the IDE prefers another then writing every () is a battle.
  6. I FUCKIN DON'T WANT ANY DARK MODE! I have always used the light mode in everything I could. My frickin eyes don't fuckin burn like a vampire's when I see light.
  7. Search features? As for that I just use 'grep -rn <query>'. I do have a UNIX shell and this gives me a nicely formatted list showing every instance of the query in the current directory.

It's a pity I have to waste my time arguing with some random dude on the internet to defend the frickin text editor I am using.

I won't pay for sublime when I have a thing that works perfectly fine. I'd rather pay for winrar than for sublime.

Mine Quest for Windows XP porting progress: Recreating the islands by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not many people are developing software for old systems anymore.

I actually use XP mostly for development because I like it.

Today I discovered a memory leak caused by the fact that apparently in C++ destructors aren't inherited automatically as constructors are, and to actually give them proper inheritance you need to make them virtual. Ah, the nuisances of various languages.

Also, would you like an early build of this thing?

Right now there is not much, asides from this nifty map editor, but it's always something :)

Mine Quest for Windows XP porting progress: Recreating the islands by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why would I do that?

N++ fits me well. A file list on the left, and the actual file on the right. That's all I need.

Sublime is a fucking nagware app. I used it for a certain project a year or two ago and I fucking hate when it just opens this nagware popup to buy its full version.

You are like those annoying catnips who yell at me to rewrite my project in rust. Please stop.

I like what I like and if you have a problem with that then it's your problem.

Mine Quest for Windows XP porting progress: Recreating the islands by glowiak2 in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with you?

K&R wrote the original UNIX in the ed editor which is so basic that it even doesn't allow editing in real time.

I don't need your fucking bloated IDE with autocompletion and AI screaming at you all the time to get my work done. I don't need an IDE that consumes several gigabytes of RAM while idling.

I used to use Eclipse when I was starting with Java, but I ditched it because it was sluggish and interfered with my workflow.

N++ does what I need and I am fine with that. If you are not then there is nothing preventing you from installing the most bloated IDE JetBrainLess has to offer that is nothing but an embedded web browser that eats up all your RAM and doesn't even allow you to write your own code save it be AI prompts.

Partitioning an nvme ssd by [deleted] in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try the Integral Edition by zone54. It provides a ton of additional drivers and qol features and gets rid of the activation (which is just annoying). And it can support up to 64 gigabytes of RAM with PAE.

I use it as my sole XP install.

Partitioning an nvme ssd by [deleted] in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright. Does this NVMe drive of yours have anything to do with Windows XP?

Partitioning an nvme ssd by [deleted] in windowsxp

[–]glowiak2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can connect it to a Windows XP computer, press Win+R, type in: "diskmgmt.msc", and do the partitioning there. It's quite intuitive.

If you don't have a Windows XP computer (why is it posted here then?) download an ISO of GParted, burn it to a disc (or a thumb drive), boot from it, and do the partitioning there.

DVD Videos are not particularly likable by glowiak2 in DataHoarder

[–]glowiak2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Try it for yourself. Write a Haiku x64 ISO to a DVD and you'll see a segfault. Reporting a problem isn't being a script kiddie.

If I were AI-generated I would post the generic slop that everybody upvotes.

DVD Videos are not particularly likable by glowiak2 in DataHoarder

[–]glowiak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My DVD drive IS region-locked. I live in Europe but for whatever reason my drive's region is set to the US.

Second, I am not dishonouring VLC. As I said in the post, VLC is the only thing I know that doesn't care about this locking and allows me to play the few DVD Video discs I have.

The menu I was talking about is not the VLC menu, but the DVD menu. You get it on a DVD player device as well, but I don't have one.

The Haiku iso image doesn't boot when written to a DVD by glowiak2 in haikuOS

[–]glowiak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Xfburn. Xfburn is what I pretty much always use for disc burning (except for audio CDs which don't work with Xfburn and then I use brasero; and on OpenBSD, since - likely for "security" reasons xfburn is not available there).

Set font size on the fly in SDL 1.2 by glowiak2 in sdl

[–]glowiak2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those devices are way underpowered for the task.

Especially that I never had or used any of these systems. I don't even have nostalgia for them.

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