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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-11-19 11:13, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 11/19/25 2:05 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2025-11-18 13:42, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 11/17/25 12:12 PM, Tom Elam wrote:   
   >>>> On 11/13/2025 6:14 AM, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 11/13/25 2:25 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I have read MS is holding shares in hardware companies.   
   >>>>>> Making more bloated software sells ever more new PCs.   
   >>>>>> Nothing MS software can do that cannot be done with simpler   
   >>>>>> hardware in Linux,   
   >>>>>> for a fraction of thew cost.   
   >>>>>> Seems much computer power is needed for advertizing these days ;-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The truth hurts. ;)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Really? You can buy a laptop that runs Windows 11 just find for   
   >>>> under $500.   
   >>>   
   >>> Linux will perform better on such a system.   
   >>   
   >> Whereby when you say "perform", you completely ignore what the actual   
   >> user might need it to do...   
   >   
   >   
   > Sure, if you have to have commercial software, Linux doesn't have it as   
   > abundantly as Windows.   
   >   
      
   Which almost all users have to have...   
      
   ...and which macOS has quite nearly as abundantly as Windows.   
      
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