To be fair, the Discord referenced is quite civil and pleasant to be around for the most part. Any arguing is generally confined to a specific and easily ignored discourse channel.

Meanwhile, on the ROOL forums...

(Sorry for the (very) late reply!) The screenshot is from an A420/1.

Decades of innovation? Er, what? RISC OS has barely changed (if it has at all) in the last 30 years.

It's about as far from innovative as you can get these days (not that that's a bad thing - it's a retro/hobby platform after all!).

Have we not run out of these cringeworthy nonsense posts yet?

A screenshot of RISC OS 3.1 running ArcWeb, a web browser from the mid-1990s showing the Wikipedia page for RISC OS displayed using FrogFind.

Today's fun fact: Browsing the web on an Archimedes (real hardware, not emulated) with ArcWeb is very much still possible!

(Bonus hat-tip to @actionretro.bsky.social for creating FrogFind to make pages usable on old systems!)

But what would be the point in learning all these things in RISC OS then going out into the real world, where RISC OS is nowhere to be seen?

Surely it makes _much_ more sense to learn in the platforms you're actually going to use and leave RISC OS as the retro curiosity it is?

Bart Simpson repeatedly writing "I do not need another Raspberry Pi" on a blackboard in a classroom.

A screen capture of two London double-decker busses on a race circuit in 1982. One bus has an Acorn Computer advertising board on the side.

London double-decker bus racing in 1982. Sponsored by Acorn Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlO5_ykips

(Hat-tip to @tomscott.com's newsletter for the link)

The RISC OS 3 splash screen reading "RISC OS 3, Copyright Acorn Computers Ltd, 1992. Initialising..."