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   Alan to CrudeSausage   
   Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually t   
   31 Aug 25 00:08:36   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-30 12:35, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > On 2025-08-30 12:11 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2025-08-30 08:29, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-08-28 9:12 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-08-28 19:23, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 8/28/2025 2:31 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2025-08-28 12:12, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 2025-08-28 10:53 a.m., Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 2025-08-28 00:12, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Linux is becoming more and more dominant, that’s what’s changed.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Yeah!   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> In the last two years it's gone from 3.12% share to 3.98%.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Any day now.   
   >>>>>>>> 🤣🤣🤣   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> There is no denying that Linux owns the server market. Neither   
   >>>>>>> Windows nor Mac OS can deliver the kind of advantages a mere   
   >>>>>>> Linux server can. Nevertheless, Microsoft seems to be the one   
   >>>>>>> making the most money using a Linux server software through Azure.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Where the chief "advantage" is cost, yes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Wrong, idiot, you're so desperate to make a point about your lame   
   >>>>> platform, that you say something so stupid, no, Windows servers   
   >>>>> have their place, but Linux is much more designed to function in   
   >>>>> the average server purposes, that is undeniable, you are a moron.   
   >>>> In what way is it "much more designed to function"?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What does it have that macOS would not that makes it better as a   
   >>>> server?   
   >>>   
   >>> Linux doesn't have the overhead that MacOS would have for server   
   >>> purposes.   
   >>   
   >> What overhead would that be?   
   >   
   > The necessity of a GUI to execute the tasks you would complete in the   
   > Linux console. If you can demonstrate how there is no need for a GUI on   
   > a Mac server compared to a Linux server, you are free to do so.   
      
   Except you can do the tasks on the console from macOS.   
      
      
   >   
   >>> You can do pretty much everything in the Linux console whereas Apple   
   >>> doesn't usually prioritize that part of their operating system.   
   >>   
   >> It doesn't put it forward to ordinary users...   
   >>   
   >> ...but it still exists.   
   >   
   > People who manage servers aren't ordinary users.   
      
   And?   
      
   Not prioritizing something doesn't mean it doesn't exist   
      
   >   
   >>> Besides, we've been in this situation before. I recall when Apple   
   >>> tried to push its Gx series servers in the mid-2000s. Absolutely no   
   >>> one wanted them because the performance was laughable whereas the   
   >>> cost was enormous. If I remember correctly, the company also expected   
   >>> you to do everything through a GUI.   
   >> But you didn't have to.   
   >   
   > Prove it.   
   I used to DO it.   
      
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