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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Alabama "Tinybones" Flint   
   Re: I'm now running Fedora Cinnamon   
   11 Aug 25 02:41:46   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.slack   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 21:14:17 -0500, Alabama \"Tinybones\" Flint wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 10:11:07 -0400, Tony wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> That Linux shit is for people who belong on the funny farm. I   
   >>> tried that Linux shit and nearly destroyed my monitor and computer   
   >>> tower with a baseball bat. Who would tout that crap anyway?   
   >>   
   >> That “crap” is running just about the entire infrastructure of the   
   >> Internet. Without it, nobody would hear you scream.   
   >>   
   > Windows isn't the answer but why is Linux the answer either?   
      
   Because it’s the closest thing humanity has ever achieved to a   
   “universal” OS.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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