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   Sn!pe to Joel W. Crump   
   Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t   
   25 Aug 25 00:34:32   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   Joel W. Crump  wrote:   
      
   > > 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  You're a very long way out of date   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.   
   >   
   >   
   > > 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.   
   >   
      
   That is an unsupported assertion.   
      
   >   
   > Microsoft and Adobe make good software for them, so do other smaller   
   > developers, but Finder in Snow Leopard was laughable.   
   >   
      
   Things have moved on in 16 years.   
   Undoubtedly external vendors make good software, so what?   
      
   AFAICS you're a blowhard who doesn't know what he's talking about.   
   Please pardon the ad hominem attack but IMO it's fully justified.   
      
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