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   Nomen Nescio to All   
   Re: So You've Decided to Switch to Linux   
   23 Dec 25 14:40:42   
   
   XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.mac.system, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nobody@dizum.com   
      
   On 20 Dec 2025, Alan Browne  posted some   
   news:%nA1R.30545$MzT8.21533@fx47.iad:   
      
   > On 2025-12-19 12:02, Donald Duck wrote:   
   >> You mean you haven't, better digest this...   
   >   
   > With many years of avoiding windows altogether (with less than 100%   
   > success), and just as many years attempting to use Linux as a full time   
   > personal desktop system, I can say categorically that it does not fit my   
   > use case at all.   
   >   
   > Mac OS has been (since I left Win ca. 2006) a better and better   
   > experience in all ways as time marches on.   
      
   Unless you have to do some actual work while also connecting seamlessly   
   to multiple dissimilar information systems, then you must use Windows.   
      
   > I have to use Linux for some purposes - but so seldom that they run in a   
   > VM on my 2012 iMac under Fusion.   
   >   
   > Linux is best where not seen: servers, database, utility devices   
   > (modems, routers, (WiFi), specialty computing, etc.   
      
   Storage arrays, fibre channel switches, BEVs, Alexas, smartphones, etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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