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|    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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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