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Now that it's Halloween, I'd like to thank @DC for doing something fun for the holiday.

I’ve been looking into this more and kind of gathered pieces of information here and there and I’m not claiming to be 100% correct, but just bringing info to the table. Supposedly languages have evolved a lot over the centuries in relation to gender and is still changing today in a natural evolution of language. Centuries ago some authors used gender neutral words. And even the past decades some countries have been changing words. Most recently that I know of being Sweden in 2015 added a gender neutral word to their dictionary, (hen) pronoun instead of using (hon or han) which means he or she. The Latin language vs Old English: Old English used a grammatical gender language using masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns that do not describe a natural sex. Latin differs in that it uses both grammatical and natural gender using masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. Old English eventually evolved into modern English in the 1200-1300’s by dropping the grammatical gender nouns and that is why English is not a gendered language. The evolution of the Latin language actually dropped the neuter nouns and kept the gender nouns giving way to Romance Latin languages like Spanish. Which brings us to today where the language continues to evolve in the USA and Latin America and the USA is caught in political crosshairs but it supposedly was not the whites who promoted it. “White people did not make up Latinx,” he says. “It was queer Latinx people... They are the ones who used the word. Our little subgroup of the community created that. It was created by English-speaking U.S. Latinx people for use in English conversation.” https://www.history.com/news/hispanic-latino-latinx-chicano-background Also in this article from History Channel, says that the movement could have started in the early 2000’s and became more popular the past decade, but still only 4% of Latins use LatinX. With today’s political divisions and inclusivity, brings about exclusivity. So what I believe will eventually happen is some words will be changed in the dictionary, and the exclusivity types will want to ban dictionaries if not outright ban non gender conforming people themselves. I thought LatinX was ridiculous at first, but we are seeing the natural evolution of language. A huge problem however, is that Spanish is not Old English or Old Latin. It's a highly gendered language. The whole language will have to change. And if it does change, they would have to bring back (neuter) nouns and Spanish would reverse back to Old Latin or something??????????? And drop the natural gender nouns while integrating the grammatical gender nouns. So maybe in the next 500 years Latina America will be speaking a New Latin non gendered language. Never know. These things have happened before over a span of hundreds of years.

Can't say much about the video above, as I have not heard about it so I have it 5/8 then 😜 We all should know the old HAlo game back in the day right

First, I deleted your double post. No worries, just try and be careful of that. Next, you can play Minecraft on mobile anyway, you don't need to emulate the PS3 version or anything. Just buy and download it from the Play Store or Apple App Store, whichever is applicable. Now though, I have to ask, why are you quoting posts form the very beginning of this thread? These post are over four years old so it's pretty absurd to expect a response now.

Some of the actual differences get super technical. To switch to another OS, you can either buy another computer with it pre-installed, or install the new OS on an existing computer. You can dual boot (where you can install multiple OS’s one one computer, but you can only run one at a time, so you have to select which one when you boot the computer. To swap between the two, you straight up have to shut off the computer and select another one. You can also use virtual machines. A technically not correct explanation, is that you’re basically emulating another OS on your computer. You just need enough resources (specs) to run two OS’s at once, as opposed to dual booting where you solely run one OS at a time. DOS is basically dead. It was the basis of Windows and was axed when XP came out. So outside of using legacy software on old computers (or emulating through DosBox) it’s essentially irrelevant. DOS was the “core” of Windows and was command line only, and Windows was the GUI (graphical user interface) to make it more user friendly. Part of the reason why some games have to be run in DOS mode was because Windows itself took up a lot of resources, so running in DOS boots your computer without Windows, and let you utilize more resources. Unix and Linux are different “families” of operating systems, that share similarities under the hood, or were built off of an existing version of Unix or Linux. There’s no “pure” version of either, so when people say they use either Unix or Linux, they need to be more specific. It’s the equivalent of saying “I drive a truck”, well… what kind of truck? What model truck? Since Linux is heavily inspired by Unix (hence why it’s called a Unix-like OS), the lines can get blurry. You won’t run into Unix much. Outside of MacOS, it’s pretty common as the custom operating system of enterprise hardware. So on a rack mounted server, it hosts Windows on it, but the OS to configure the hardware would be some variant of Unix. With MacOS, since it’s a completely different OS from Windows, you can’t run Windows software on it. You have to have software specifically written for MacOS. So popular software like MS Office or Google Chrome have to be ported over. With that, it has exclusive software. It’s also part of the reason why gamers don’t use Macs, the lack of games. Macs (and anything that isn’t Windows) are immune to Windows viruses, because they’re written for well… Windows. Though that’s entirely due to the overwhelming market share of Windows. (Iirc it’s like 80%). So while your chances aren’t zero, you are less likely to get viruses It is more efficient than Windows, because it only runs on a limited set of hardware variations, so you can easily optimize the operating system, as opposed to Windows or Linux where you have to make it compatible with a wide variety of hardware. Macs also heavily cater to the creativity market in the hardware/software department, so if you hang around artsy communities, your likely hood of seeing a Mac is very high. It’s because Microsoft pissed those companies off in the 90’s, so Steve Jobs swooped in. I record music as a hobby, and Macs are less of a headache to use than Windows for it. A lot of the hardware is plug and play, while I have to spend a ton of time fiddling with stuff, or downloading various things to get my hardware to run on Windows. With Linux, it has some of the benefits of MacOS (ie lack of viruses), but it’s more catered to “power users” than Windows and Mac, and is a lot more customizable. If you’re into tinkering, it’s for you. Using the command line (aka terminal) is very popular. When you asked earlier what a distro was, it’s just the jargon for “variant” of Linux, and is short for distribution. So like my truck analogy earlier, saying distro, is like saying model. “I have an F150, I have a Silverado. Well Linux users will say “I run Ubuntu, I run Gentoo”. Differences in distros will vary in a myriad of ways, and to make things more confusing, there are variations of Linux based off of an existing distro. Some differences will be the varying degrees of user friendlyness. Some versions require to do things only through command line, and others have it to where you never have to use it. Some also let you install software through their App Store, or just install it by double clicking the install file. Others have you build the installer yourself. Some of those make you wonder why do it the hard way, but some people just find it fun. The reason why people claim Linux is better is that if you’re a power user, you have full control over it, and you can customize it yourself. There is a degree of snobbery behind some users, because Linux is considered the “smart people OS”, so some people use it as a badge of “I’m smarter than you”. It also increases significantly alongside the difficulty of the distro. So a distro like Gentoo where you essentially have to program the OS yourself, and everything about it, they will let you know they use it without you asking. If you’re still confused, feel free to pick whichever portion(s) you’re confused about, and I’ll break it down further. In all honesty, there’s no “better” OS, it’s just what fits your use case.