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   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
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   29 Dec 25 09:46:35   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-29 07:42, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/28/25 11:51 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>>> The Mac interface is under-developed.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> In what specific ways?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> It simply copies other OSes, being late to the game, never   
   >>>>>>>>> being up to date.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Name such a copy.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Just the fact that they glued their proprietary system onto Unix   
   >>>>>>> tells the story.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Not of supposed "copying" it doesn't.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's not original work.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Which things aren't original and from what were they copied.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> List at least one specific thing.   
   >>>   
   >>> The really amusing thing is how they got mad at Google for copying   
   >>> the iPhone, it's OK for them to do it on countless things for their   
   >>> products, but they want to have a monopoly on that style of   
   >>> smartphone. Greed Inc.   
   >>   
   >> Noting that you cannot produce a single instance of any of your   
   >> supposed "countless things".   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Even being a Unix flavor, it fails to act as one out of the   
   >>>>>>>>>>> box compared to a Linux distro,   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> In what way?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Is that not obvious to you?  Darwin has a great potential, but   
   >>>>>>>>> it's not a complete subsystem.  At the end of the day,   
   >>>>>>>>> Microsoft's WSL 2 is better, because it implements GUI apps in   
   >>>>>>>>> a seamless- enough way.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> In what way is Darwin incomplete?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Can I use macOS as a Unix flavor out of the box?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Yup.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Who is supporting that?  Certainly not Apple.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What do you mean by "supporting"?   
   >>>   
   >>> Its Unix support as it is sold by Apple is rudimentary.   
   >>   
   >> Again. What "support" do you feel is lacking?   
   >>   
   >> Name something provide by other Unix OS producers that Apple doesn't   
   >> provide.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> 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.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> If I like something, it must be really good, because I have   
   >>>>>>>>> objective tastes and judgments on things.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> You're a loony.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> And yet I have quite a following.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> In your head.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's very real and I work hard at deserving it.   
   >>>   
   >>>> LOL!   
   >>>   
   >>> Fellow Usenet posters are not a good sample of an opinion on that,   
   >>> Alan.   You see me as a competitor, because of our views on   
   >>> computers, the people reading in the shadows are simply judging the   
   >>> merits, I am very confident they find me highly compelling.   
   >>   
   >> I see you as a joke.   
   >   
   >   
   > You *are* a joke, and so are Macs.   
   >   
      
   Wow! How original!   
      
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