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|    Alan to Joel W. Crump    |
|    Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t    |
|    24 Aug 25 16:20:11    |
      XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy       From: nuh-uh@nope.com              On 2025-08-24 16:13, Joel W. Crump wrote:       > On 8/24/2025 6:49 PM, Sn!pe wrote:       >       >>> Windows is just WYSIWYG, Mac is quirky. Linux requires comprehension,       >>> which I have, but I'm not disliking using Windows again, for now. I       >>> haven't made my decision about replacing it with Linux on this mini PC.       >>       >> You say that your experience of Mac was using Snow Leopard: that       >> version was current 16 years ago. You're a very long way out of date       >> to be passing comments about modern macOS.       >       >       > Fair point - but I'm less than confident in Apple's ability to keep pace       > of development.               From a point of no experience whatsoever.              >       >       >> In what way was that ancient version quirky? Do you mean "different       >> from Windows"? Perhaps it required too much of a mental gear-shift       >> to become properly accustomed to the Mac way of going about things.       >> To be fair, it did take me a couple of days to be comfortable with it       >> when I first migrated to Mac from Windows via Mandrake Linux.       >       >       > Apple just doesn't have great coders. Microsoft and Adobe make good       > software for them, so do other smaller developers, but Finder in Snow       > Leopard was laughable.       How do you KNOW Apple doesn't have "great coders"?              And the Finder in Snow Leopard is 16 years out of date.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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