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   CrudeSausage to Alan   
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   24 Dec 25 21:14:13   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-24 8:54 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It's part of why I use Windows. I like Linux, but it's always a series   
   of compromises which, when considered as a whole, don't make the   
   operating system worth using.   
      
   --   
   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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