XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-29 14:35, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 9/29/2025 4:59 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2025-09-29 13:53, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 9/25/2025 9:41 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-09-25 18:27, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 9/25/2025 7:58 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2025-09-24 07:52, Tom Elam wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> As a Windows user who has tried Mac and played with Linux I love   
   >>>>>>> Windows 11. Does what I need and runs all my software flawlessly.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> And from extensive experience with with Windows 11 and macOS, I   
   >>>>>> can tell you Windows requires FAR more support.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That's obviously due to the different types of people using each   
   >>>>> platform, to me "support" is a joke, I'm not bone stupid, but of   
   >>>>> course Windows is what more people use and more people tends to   
   >>>>> mean more dumb.   Mac users are dumb in a different respect, they   
   >>>>> like being treated like sheep by Apple, but they have intelligence   
   >>>>> in how they use the Mac, the Windows user is the one calling the   
   >>>>> 800 number for "tech support" from the OEM or MS, depending how   
   >>>>> they got their license, it's pathetic.   So yeah, Windows requires   
   >>>>> more support because more people use it, congrats, you are a brainiac.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As the one actually doing the support, I can tell you very   
   >>>> confidently that it has NOTHING to do with the "types of people".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The exact same "types of people" us both platforms.   
   >>>   
   >>> You would *claim* that, sure ...   
   >>   
   >> Present any real evidence that they're not.   
   >   
   >   
   > You have experience here, I acknowledge, but I do too, I've known a lot   
   > of computer users over the years, I've seen the personality-trait   
   > differences.  Does that mean *every* Windows user is stupid?  Of course   
   > not.  Does it mean every macOS user is brilliant?  No, but they do put   
   > more effort *in general* into learning techniques for what they're   
   > doing.  For me, a bona fide computer nerd, any modern OS is more or less   
   > the same, though I don't care for macOS, but it *can* be made to do what   
   > I do.  But Windows has a wide variety of people using it, beyond any   
   > other platform, some are perfectly competent, but all too often they   
   > have a deficit of skill.   
   >   
      
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