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« on: January 31, 2024, 02:32:10 pm »
OS/2 will survive for some years to come in the industrial business.
Private Customers will "die out" due to
- their age
- the uselessness of the System to private Users
- Memory Problem, no WLAN, no Localization,
- ArcaNoae showing no interest in private users
I would guess the number of German Users decreased during the last 3 Years, as there has allways been this tiring shifts of WLAN and German Local Version, to less of 10% of what have been before.
Yes, there are some people around using it for daily business but 99,9999999% of the Users do not even know what ArcaOS is.
It is impossible to persuade someone to have even a closer look at the system, because so many things are missing.
OS/2 had its time, that ended way back in 2005. It will never get opensourced nor will there be more private users, unless a miracle happens and ArcaNoae may solve the above problems, and add Bluetooth support and and and... But as David A. told me, there is no way to solve the memory problem.
It is much easier to use a Linux for free and install and use OS/2 in a Virtualization. There it can get it's tailored hardware.
Nor will ArcaOS ever be some kind of "Retro Plattform", as there are other, much more comfortable, customizable and free Solutions around like DosBOX, ScummVM etc.
It may sound to negative for some others, but that is my point of view, I just describe the facts without emotions, it is the way it is.
Personally I will try to have more success with the Lenovo Z13 Gen 2, just for fun, just to answer my eternal question I do have with OS/2 on modern hardware: will OS/2 run on it? And even if I get the Sound, with help from Paul and others, to work, the device will still be a "Technical Demo", nothing you can reliable work with.
What I would really like to see, was an OS/2 like Interface on Top of a Linux Kernel and System, building a clone of the WPS on Linux. In my opinion the only way to keep the OS/2 feeling alive in the future. But this is unlikely to happen as well.
All the best!