XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-03 18:15, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-03 17:33, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-03 14:07, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 1/3/26 4:57 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-01-03 13:50, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:35:17 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Arm CPUs are the best thing to happen to PCs since the SSD.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Second-best. RISC-V may yet surpass them. Maybe even LoongArch.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ummmm... "may yet surpass" literally means "aren't YET as good".   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> And as usual, Linux is leading the way.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> LOL!   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Linux and Windows both support ARM, your precious Apple overlords aren't   
   >>   
   >> So? How does that show Linux "leading the way"?   
   >   
   > It doesn't.    
      
   Thank you.   
      
   Your bullshit irrelevant to the discussion removed.   
      
   >   
   >> There's more to leading the way that simply being able to run an OS.   
   >>   
   >> People don't use the OS: they use applications that can run on that OS.   
   >>   
   >> And Apple has lead the way in making it possible to run a program   
   >> written for a different architecture on new one.   
   >>   
   >> Motorola to PowerPC   
   >>   
   >> PowerPC to Intel   
   >>   
   >> And now, Intel to Apple Silicon.   
   >   
   > What if I don't want to pay exorbitant prices for RAM or storage and   
   > intend to hold onto my computer (and have updates) for more then seven   
   > years? Apple has nothing to sell me.   
      
   How has that anything to do with the topic under discussion?   
      
   Oh right!   
      
   It doesn't!   
      
   >   
   >>> so special and genius in adopting it, though it has in many ways   
   >>> improved their own business, but to imagine that macOS's transition   
   >>> makes it unique here is typical Alan masturbatory logic and probable   
   >>> financial support by Apple in secret, because they need a Usenet shill   
   >>   
   >> Oh, this your new bullshit, is it?   
   >>   
   >>> they can depend on to obfuscate their drawbacks and exaggerate their   
   >>> better features, making it seem like the investment in a Mac isn't   
   >>> overpaying Apple but in fact an upgrade over its competition, a   
   >>> proposition easily refuted by actually using the three platforms   
   >>> enough to see how mediocre Apple's crapware really is.   
   >> And yet you can never actually articulate something that either Linux   
   >> or Windows does better.   
   >   
   > Servers and supercomputers for Linux, gaming for Windows.   
   >   
      
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