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   vallor to Joel W. Crump   
   Re: Only Microsoft Could Invent A Cache    
   24 Dec 25 17:15:53   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:54:38 -0500, "Joel W. Crump"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 12/24/25 11:44 AM, vallor wrote:   
   > > At Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:09:50 +0000, Diego Garcia  wrote:   
   > >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:42:12 +0000, vallor wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Had a chat with my friend, a Linux instructor at the local   
   > >>> college,   
   > >>   
   > >> A (GNU/)Linux instructor?  What brand of GNU/Linux does he   
   > >> instruct?  RedHat Linux?  Ubuntu Linux?  Certainly it is   
   > >> some form of Systemd/Wayland Linux which is not GNU/Linux   
   > >> but only a particular configuration of GNU/Linux.  His college   
   > >> should terminate that incompetent phony.   
   > >   
   > > Um...what?   
   > >   
   > > (The gist of your rant is that you are jealous about...something?)   
   >   
   >   
   > Larry is so obsessed with purity in his system that he forgoes   
   > components that would make it competitive with Windows.  It's why   
   > there's nothing so bad about distros.  But he insists that his way is   
   > not only better but right, when it's neither.   
      
   Uh, thanks for the clarification...   
      
   There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Larry crosses   
   the line and thinks he's scored a "touchdown".   
      
   So...yay?   
      
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