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   CrudeSausage to Tyrone   
   Re: Microsoft Finally Admits Almost All    
   13 Dec 25 18:22:38   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-13 5:37 p.m., Tyrone wrote:   
   > On Dec 13, 2025 at 5:05:55 AM EST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 04 Dec 2025 02:36:56 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> You act surprised that Windows has a shell.   
   >>   
   >> Apple and Microsoft have spent years, decades, conditioning their users to   
   >> be allergic to the command line.   
   >>   
   >> Now, suddenly, Linux has made the command line cool again, and those two   
   >> are desperately trying to play catch-up.   
   >   
   > After 30 years, Linux has not "suddenly" done anything. The command line was   
   > never "cool".  That you think it is speaks volumes about you.   
   >   
   > The command line has always been there. Consumer OSes just don't need it very   
   > often.   
      
   I'll be the first to admit that I like the command line and prefer to do   
   things like rename or edit files from within one. However, no modern   
   operating system absolutely needs to have one. Either way, what Windows   
   offers the users now is quite stellar.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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