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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Joel W. Crump   
   Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually the B   
   24 Aug 25 09:32:43   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:52:22 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
      
   > But no, buying a fucking Mac is not the answer.  It's too expensive.   
      
   And lacking in expandability and versatility. All Apple’s machines are   
   basically just glorified laptops now.   
      
   And the OS may have licensed the “Unix” trademark, but it doesn’t work   
   the   
   way people expect traditional “Unix” systems to work.   
      
   Ask one of the original Bell Labs crew, Ken “Mr Unix” Thompson: he has   
   given up on Apple and switched to Linux.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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