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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  You're a very long way out of date   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   And the Finder in Snow Leopard is 16 years out of date.   
      
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