XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 22, 2025 at 5:31:11 AM MST, "MikeS" wrote   
   <10fsaee$dlh7$1@dont-email.me>:   
      
   > On 21/11/2025 23:16, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >> On Nov 21, 2025 at 4:10:43 PM MST, "Hank Rogers" wrote   
   >> <10fqrho$2bo7$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   ...   
      
   >>>>   
   >>>> It’s like taking a car for a test drive; why not try it out for   
   >>>> yourself, and see how it works for you?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> People coming from the Microsoft and Apple worlds expect things to   
   >>>> fall into their lap, courtesy of those companies’ mu   
   ti-million-dollar   
   >>>> promotional budgets. That’s not how it works here: you will have to   
   >>>> make some effort to find things out for yourself.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Exactly.  Linux has already taken over the world completely.  But the   
   >>> world doesn't know it yet!  We must promote linux until they come to   
   >>> their senses and look past the microsoft apple blinders.  Only then will   
   >>> they be free from oppression.   
   >>   
   >> LOL!   
   >>   
   > There is one useful lesson to learn from the comparison of cars and   
   > computers. Linux has transferred its pointless pollution of countless   
   > options, versions and settings to cars.   
   >   
   > Until recently you could step into almost any model of any car by any   
   > maker and find a more or less standard configuration of controls and   
   > instruments with little scope to change anything.   
      
   And with a LOT of regulation on how things work.   
      
   > Thanks to the wonder   
   > of software (Linux) based cars the driver needs to read an encyclopedia   
   > to learn even the simplest task like adjusting the heater or using the   
   > screen wipers.   
      
   Some settings are different, but a lot tends to be the same. Resizing and   
   moving windows, using menus, drag and drop. But there are differences which   
   can throw people off.   
      
   --   
   It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with   
   you.   
      
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