XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-11-19 12:20, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 11/19/25 3:08 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > Perhaps, but I get along pretty well with Linux software.   
   >   
      
   Sure, but here's a thought that has not made it into your very   
   narrow-minded outlook:   
      
   YOU...   
      
   ...are not EVERYONE IN THE COMPUTER USING WORLD.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)