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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Brock McNuggets   
   Re: Microsoft Finally Admits Almost All    
   14 Dec 25 20:34:23   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 14 Dec 2025 15:12:13 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > On Dec 13, 2025 at 6:57:03 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   > <10hl5hf$jeli$9@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> On 13 Dec 2025 21:35:40 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Dec 13, 2025 at 3:05:55 AM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   >>> <10hjdq3$3tm78$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Now, suddenly, Linux has made the command line cool again, and those   
   >>>> two are desperately trying to play catch-up.   
   >>>   
   >>> Suddenly? Linux / UNIX has always had a command line -- since long   
   >>> before Apple or MS existed.   
   >>   
   >> Correct. And that was always seen by Microsoft and Apple users as   
   >> something scary and complicated, to be avoided, pretty much at all costs,   
   >> in favour of point-and-click ways of doing things.   
   >   
   > For whom? Most users do use the GUI.   
      
   Again, you are merely agreeing with what I’m saying.   
      
   >> How else to describe the change in viewpoint as “sudden”?   
   >   
   > What change? Where are you getting this from?   
      
   You don’t seem very aware of what is going on, do you?   
      
      
      
      
      
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