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   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
   Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t   
   24 Aug 25 11:17:57   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-24 11:01, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/24/2025 12:47 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2025-08-24 02:32, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Sorry, Linux fans:   
   >>   
   >> Pretty much everyone disagrees with you.   
   >   
   >   
   > But they are Windows users, more often than not, so ...   
   >   
      
   Pretty much all the people who leave Windows...   
      
   ...get Macs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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