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It seems like you’ve got plenty of choices already, but how about an OS that’s already been cut down to work on the limited RAM of a Raspberry PI? It bills itself as a good alternative for limited hardware.
MisterFPGA has a real image problem. It just exudes “complicated”. Visit the homepage and witness exposed boards and adapters shooting everywhere, along with constant talk about loading cores and updates.
SuperNT/MegaSG and RetroUSB’s AVS are popular because they remove that barrier for entry. This one promises to do that, but obviously people are skeptical. The fact they want to launch without full Dreamcast capabilities and say it’ll be updated later means they already put up a barrier for entry.
I can’t recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.
And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad… all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.