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   CrudeSausage to pothead   
   Re: Sorry, Linux Fans: Mac Is Actually t   
   30 Aug 25 20:53:23   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-08-30 8:22 p.m., pothead wrote:   
   > On 2025-08-30, 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.   
   >   
   > You paid $200 for a Windows license?   
   > You can get it legally for ~$20.   
   >   
   > Too many red pills mixed with the blue ones?   
      
   I'm betting that his "girlfriend" penetrated him through the ear and   
   disturbed the assembly of pebbles in there.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
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