XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-31 10:23, Tyrone wrote:   
   > On Dec 31, 2025 at 4:40:59 AM EST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:19:03 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱   
   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> More about this unusual and historical event can be read from art.   
   >>> under title as in subject ...   
   >>   
   >> Every architecture worth its salt has Linux support. That’s not news.   
   >> It’s just something you can take for granted.   
   >>   
   >> Now, if Microsoft or Apple were to announce they were supporting some   
   >> new architecture, that would be news. Amusing news, it is true, as you   
   >> anticipate the moment when they fall flat on their face. But still   
   >> news.   
   >   
   > Apple has had 4 architectures. Motorola 68K, PPC, Intel and Arm. They have   
   > NEVER fallen flat on anyone's face. The change has always been transparent to   
   > users.   
      
   I wouldn't say that the change from MacOS 9 to Mac OS X was transparent.   
   They did the best that they could, but most people were probably aware   
   that Mac OS 9 was running simultaneously to X.   
      
   > PPC to Intel to Arm was much easier due to OS X (MacOS) by that time being   
   > Unix.  Unix/Linux has that flexibility. Portable/scalable/modular. Because   
   > Unix was designed that way.   
   >   
   > Windows is not portable/scalable/modular and never will be. It was designed   
   > for Intel.  Period. Look how long it has taken MS to get Windows running   
   > smoothly on Arm.   
   >   
   > Equating Windows with MacOS (Unix) just makes you look ignorant.   
      
   Apple does a much better job than Microsoft does, that is for sure.   
      
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