XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: Altie@BHam.com   
      
   On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:31:45 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:32:16 -0000 (UTC), CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:40:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:14:36 -0000 (UTC), CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 02:25:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> There we go again, the hidebound Dimdows user cannot help but assume   
   >>>>> that Linux is just like all those proprietary systems in that the   
   >>>>> GUI is somehow inextricably tied into the OS or distro, rather than   
   >>>>> being a separately configurable/replaceable layer.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And Gentoo is among the top of the league of Linux distros in terms   
   >>>>> of configurability, too.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> [Ad-hominem smokescreen]   
   >>>   
   >>> Pro Internet tip: trying to distract from my point with irrelevancies   
   >>> is a tacit way of admitting I’m right.   
   >>   
   >> This is not the Internet, sir; it's called Usenet.   
   >   
   > Unless you are still accessing it via UUCP over dialup lines, you don’t   
   > have a point.   
   >   
   > Trying to distract from my point with irrelevancies, strike two.   
      
   Sir Lawrence, you are going to be hard-pressed to convince any but the   
   most wide-eyed and gullible that Usenet is, in fact, the Internet.   
      
   Try another angle; start over and forget about this tangent.   
      
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