On 6/17/24 7:44 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote:
No! Some of us want to keep using DVD and not be pushed away
What he said.Might I humbly suggest that this whole thread title is provocative, alarming, and maybe even a little inflamatory?
Some of us still prefer physical media, whether in the form of printed books, CDs, tapes, DVDs, vinyl, &c. Most of my computers have at least one drive capable of handling physical media, and most of those that don't can talk to my USB optical drive. And I regularly "sneakernet" files between two of them, on a Zip Disk. And my stereo system still has a CD drive, a CD-R drive, and a tape deck . . . but NOTHING that can deal with downloaded recordings unless burned onto physical media. And I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
I will note that when my previous DOSbook failed, I needed PC-DOS 2000 on physical media in order to do the OS-install.
And I'll also note that at present, the Linux subsystem on my Chromebook is, in a word, hosed, and I blame that on unasked-for "updates" (of dubious value at best) being foisted upon me.
-- JHHL