Freedos thoughts

2026-06-11

Maybe I have the best system already

I've been looking at Freedos for the retrocomputing nostalgia value and the text-only goodness.

I wound up using Qemu on my X270 as Freedos on bare metal means my 14 year old Thinkpad X220 is way too modern.

Yes there's some crazy good software, and it's fun. But using fullscreen in Qemu means a fuzzy display, and I came to measure how the terminal on Linux is truly light years ahead.

In fact it pushes home that my Artix / DWM / Kitty setup is the veritable retrocomputing bees knees