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What kind of work do you do? (Users)

posted by libz, 06.10.2023, 22:24

Hi,

I'm feeling exhaust with all the complexity of the *nixes, dislike Windows as a user is not the owner of the system, and won't buy anything from Apple.
My hope is on other systems, like Haiku, Serenity, others and... DOS.

I don't play games, so games are out of consideration.
From a desktop system to be useful for me, I'd need to use:
1- email
2- office documents
3- pdf
4- web stuff/ banking/ purchase orders/ assessing some other services and resources
5- print to a Brother MFC-J430W printer
6- scan from the same device (or optionally from a Acer flatbed if it's fine)
7- photos (save, convert, rename)
8- videos (save, convert, rename)
9- save photos and videos to DVDs as a backup
10- programming
11- listen to music
12- watching youtube (and other platform) videos

For printing and scanning, the support from Brother has no DOS drivers, the furthest on the Windows line is for Windows XP 32 bits.

Regarding programming, I found Tcl/Tk as the simple tool that fits my brain.
Could also consider returning to Pascal that I don't use since my youth.
I could also try Cobol, one of the hated languages from the computer (complex) "science" world. And could do the same for Forth.

So, my question is. What could I achieve from DOS with all the modern tools available?
There's surely a lot to learn, only for memory there's extended, high, and some other modes.

Another question: what kind of "modern" work (not games) do you use DOS for?

Thank you.

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