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   vallor to chrisv   
   Re: Remember when setting up a Windows P   
   04 Jan 26 20:33:57   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:01:51 -0600, chrisv  wrote:   
      
   > Alan wrote:   
   >   
   > > chrisv wrote:   
   > >> Alan wrote:   
   > >>> chrisv wrote:   
   > >>>> Alan wrote:   
   > >>>>> CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > >>>>>> Alan wrote:   
   > >>>>>>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>> Second-best. RISC-V may yet surpass them. Maybe even LoongArch.   
   > >>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> Ummmm... "may yet surpass" literally means "aren't YET as good".   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Yes, everyone understood what he meant.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> He declared ARM CPUs "second-best", then literally contradicted   
   himself.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> He also made the point that Linux is leading the way with new   
   > >>>> alternative architectures, which you "LOL"ed at, dipshit.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Because they aren't LEADING.   
   > >>   
   > >> Yes, Linux is LEADING, in the context of new alternative   
   > >> architectures.   
   > >   
   > >Really? How so?   
   >   
   > Idiot.   
   >   
   > >> No matter how much you love your Apple gear and think it blows-away   
   > >> GNU-Linux on the desktop, it can't be denied that GNU-Linux is a great   
   > >> thing for emerging technologies.   
   > >   
   > >In what "new alternative architecture" does Linux actually LEAD?   
   >   
   > Lawrence gave two examples, dipshit.   
      
   $ ls linux-6.18.3/arch/   
   Kconfig  arm64      m68k        openrisc  s390   x86   
   alpha    csky       microblaze  parisc    sh     x86_64   
   arc      hexagon    mips        powerpc   sparc  xtensa   
   arm      loongarch  nios2       riscv     um   
      
   --   
   -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 Mem: 258G   
      OS: Linux 6.18.3 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)   
      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti (24G) (580.105.08)   
      "If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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