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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So let me get this straight -- your defense of Microsoft, in this instance, is Japanese cabinet makers, making arcade machines, where the user doesn't interact with the operating system in the slightest bit? A Japan that still faxes even in modernity? That's your defense of MS? I bet they aren't even using a special build of windows


just the desktop schlock with some shitty 3rd party app on top.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

im not defending mocrosoft at a whole, im just saying windows embedded isnt as bad as you actually think it is, and consumers benefitted from it more than it not

A Japan that still faxes even in modernity?

what a country does has barely anything to do with rhis context. thats like saying the U.S is shit because they didnt have tap to pay until Covid happened, whoch other countries have been usong for a decade before, or having terrible public transportation and internet infrastructure, and in the latter case, basically invented it.

That's your defense of MS? I bet they aren't even using a special build of windows


just the desktop schlock with some shitty 3rd party app on top.

that shows how ignorant you are with it because all of the games arent directly ported. look into the efforts required to port Gundam Extreme Versus 2 on teknoparrot. if it was a native game, then they wouldnt have to jump through as many hoops as the game doesnt have a PC port (nor any of its predecessors have ever had one)