XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/11/20 0:15:48, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:24:54 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:   
   >    
   >> This is a great thread, but shouldn't we also start examining which of    
   >> the 2000 linux distros are "The finest of the superb" ...   
   >    
   > Look at all the cars on the road. Why isn’t everybody driving the same   
   > make and model?   
   >    
   > THERE. CAN. BE. ONLY. ONE. CAR.   
      
   And it shall be a Trabant.   
      
   (Side story: my parents always preferred to stay in small family-run   
   establishments than chain hotels. Not long after German reunification,   
   they were holidaying in the former East, and the family had a Trabant;   
   my parents asked why they didn't get a more modern western car. Their   
   reply was along the lines of: do you know how many _years_ we had to   
   wait to get that? [Story filtered via my Mum, who tended to embroider.])   
      
   To return to the analogy: would you say that the various OSs could be   
   compared to the three types of car - petrol (US "gas"), Diesel, and   
   Electric? (If so, which is which?) There are of course hybrids (though   
   last time I looked - admittedly a few years ago - there seemed to be   
   only one hybrid make that used Diesel rather than petrol).   
      
      
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