XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-08-30 1:30 p.m., Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/30/2025 12:41 AM, Tyrone wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>> people who run Linux tend to be more motivated.   
   >>   
   >> Because they have to be.  Desktop Linux mainly appeals to young geeks   
   >> with   
   >> little/no money. Nothing wrong with that. I used to be one.   
   >>   
   >> But that was 25 years ago.  Now I am older and I have money. Because I   
   >> have a   
   >> career, not just "a job".  I am no longer interested in "compiling the   
   >> latest   
   >> kernel".  I am perfectly fine with paying someone else to do that for me.   
   >> That's why I moved on from Linux to Windows to Macs.   
   >>   
   >> Because I have more important things to do.   
   >   
   >   
   > I gave away a $200 Windows license to switch to Linux, and I've donated   
   > money to a distro.   
      
   How can you donate something you don't have?   
      
   >> Even you - after you trashed your Linux box due to complete technical   
   >> ineptitude - are now running Windows 11. See how nice it is to just buy a   
   >> computer and have it work without jumping through hoops?   
   >   
   >   
   > I sweated in the heat, genius, it's not "technical ineptitude".  I was   
   > kind of strung out on DXM and careless, but I know how to put together   
   > computers.   
      
   Plugging a plugging into the wall socket is not putting it together.   
      
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