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   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
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   24 Dec 25 17:54:01   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-24 17:42, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/24/25 8:33 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> Samsung's phones and Linux like I use, objectively, are for cool   
   >>>>>>> people, who choose the best.  Windows 11 is OK, for those who are   
   >>>>>>> less technically inclined.  macOS, though, is objectively inferior.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> And yet you've never been able to express how.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Apple is low-key.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In what way?   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't feel bad,   
   >>   
   >> I don't feel bad.   
   >>   
   >> Why would i?   
   >   
   >   
   > Because you paid Apple's prices?   
      
   To get a product that works very well.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>> though, it worked out well for MS Office and Adobe Photoshop, and so   
   >>> forth, they thrive on the Mac.  Winblows has its nice points but   
   >>> isn't really better *in every respect*, which is why macOS and Linux   
   >>> maintain such loyal followings.  I would never buy another Mac, but I   
   >>> understand the kinds of uses that would lead one to do it. Their   
   >>> presence in the market does matter, because it serves a substantial   
   >>> need among the public of consumers.   
   >   
   >> Failure to answer the question noted.   
   >   
   >   
   > The Mac interface is under-developed.   
      
   In what specific ways?   
      
   > Even being a Unix flavor, it   
   > fails to act as one out of the box compared to a Linux distro,   
      
   In what way?   
      
   > so it has   
   > to be judged by macOS apps specifically, and there are stellar ones as I   
   > mentioned and acknowledged, but on the whole it's quirky software by   
   > comparison to what is common with Windows and Linux systems.   
      
   Give an example of this supposedly "quirky" software and how it is   
   claimed to be "quirky".   
      
   > This is   
   > why, objectively, I am right,   
      
   Given that you never offer anything but your personal opinions, the word   
   "objectively"...   
      
   ...is objectively being used incorrectly.   
      
   > and you are the Apple fanboy to see as   
   > missing the big picture of why you prefer something that is in fact   
   > inferior.   
   In ways that you can never seem to identify with any specificity.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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