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What kind of work do you do? (Users)

posted by GNUser, 22.10.2023, 14:25

I too wondered about "would it be possible to use DOS as a daily driver?" in the past.
Honestly I think it's more of a novelty thing than anything else. These days it's easier to find an old machine that runs a Linux based OS, than an old enough machine that runs DOS based OS. Ahahah.

Anyway, I do like to revisit that thought from times to times and there are some interesting ideas I can throw your way:


Regarding social media, if you just want to access posts of other people, these are great days to be alive. Nitter, Teddit, Invidious, Proxigram, all these make it possible to access without JS or even modern HTML5. Quetre even allows to access Quora answers if that is interesting for your work, and SearxNG will give good web search results. I recommend Links in graphics mode.

If you want to actually post stuff, I remember there was a twitter client named Quitter, a Mastodon client that I can't remember the name, and there was even a ChatGPT client that could run on DOS.

As for watching video, I recommend www.phr.ee or other AllTubeDownload instance still running to get the MP4 file and using QuickView or MPlayer to watch them.

I never heard of an RSS client for DOS but there are RSS2Email solutions around. And you can use www.danwin1210.de/mail for accessing SquirrelMail webmail interface, works well with Links.

Hope this helps.


> 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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