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   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
   Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t   
   30 Aug 25 12:13:59   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-29 16:55, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/29/2025 4:27 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I was in a bad mood, I confess, but I've certainly gotten laid plenty   
   >>> of times.  I understand that people's minds work in a variety of   
   >>> ways, and to some, Macs are the bee's knees, and that's fine for   
   >>> them.  But objectively, they are overpriced.   
   >   
   >> Objectively, they are not.   
   >>   
   >> They are not overpriced precisely BECAUSE they are the "bee's knees"   
   >> for some people.   
   >>   
   >> Your tacit (you're not out of grade school, so you might need to look   
   >> it up) assumption is that anyone who doesn't find them to be overprice   
   >> must have something WRONG with their mind.   
   >>   
   >> As for you being in a bad mood, we call get those.   
   >>   
   >> But what you turn to for language WHEN you are in a bad mood speaks   
   >> volumes about you, child.   
   >   
   >   
   > If you assumed I implied something being wrong with your mind, that was   
   > not intended by me,   
      
   But it is pretty much what you implied.   
      
   > but in fact I don't think that is what is behind the   
   > inferiority of Apple's software.   
      
   An "inferiority" you've yet to articulate.   
      
   > Their patrons are fairly intelligent,   
   > in fact.  You just could get a better computer for the money.   
   Maybe, maybe not.   
      
   Many, many more people seem to disagree. A lot of them far more   
   intelligent and educated than either of us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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