XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote on 11/20/2025 2:24 PM:   
   > On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:47:22 +0000, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >   
   >> To return to the analogy: would you say that the various OSs could   
   >> be compared to the three types of car ...   
   >   
   > If Apple and Microsoft made cars, they would have entirely different   
   > driving systems, need different kinds of fuel, and have to be driven   
   > each on its own set of roads. Switching is not something you could do   
   > easily.   
   >   
   > Even worse, if you decided to switch, you might even have to   
   > *untravel* some of the miles you’d already done, and do them again in   
   > the new car.   
   >   
   > By contrast, Linux offers a thousand different models of cars -- more   
   > than the Apple and Microsoft worlds put together. And they come in a   
   > bewildering range of colours, sizes, seat and door layouts etc. But   
   > they all drive in pretty much the same say, use the same fuel, and   
   > operate on the same roads. So switching is something you can do very   
   > easily.   
   >   
   > But people coming from the Apple or Microsoft worlds still complain   
   > about why we need so many choices: why can’t the Linux world be more   
   > like the Apple and Microsoft worlds, with more limited choices? Who   
   > needs so many kinds of cars? Didn’t you know, having too much choice   
   > is “unsustainableâ€� -- whatever that means?   
   >   
      
   I think it should be against the law for anyone to use anything other   
   than linux.   
      
   We need to amend the constitutions and laws in every country.   
      
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