FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 Released With "Live CD" Support

[torsionbar28]

You do realise that Millennials are pushing 40 now, with kids of their own, and are well on their way to a mid-life crisis, right?

The "airheads" (meaning young'uns who don't understand) are Gen-Z or Gen-Alpha, depending on the exact age you're complaining about.

It sounds like he was referring to those unfamiliar with DOS, being too young to have worked with it when it was the dominant desktop OS. So yes, that would include the vast majority of millenials.

[phoenix_rizzen]

It sounds like he was referring to those unfamiliar with DOS, being too young to have worked with it when it was the dominant desktop OS. So yes, that would include the vast majority of millenials.

Not really. Millennials is roughly 1980-1995. Heyday for DOS was the late 80s through to 98-ish. Thus, over half of Millennials would have been old enough to play around on a DOS-based computer at home, and definitely would've had access to one in school (especially considering we ran Windows 98 in the local school district here until after 2005, although we started transitioning to Linux in 2001). Only the very youngest ones, born in the 90s, might not have any exposure to DOS.

Millennials are 25-40 years old right now.

The teens and 20-somethings that everyone is complaining about these days (aka the Tide Pod Generation) are Gen-Z (1995-2010ish) and Gen Alpha (2005-now). There just aren't any "catchy" names for those generational cohorts, so everyone just uses "millennial" to mean "anyone younger than me acting like an idiot". The funny bit is when 30-somethings say that, since THEY are millennials.