Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available

On 2024-05-07 12:20 p.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

On 2024-05-07 8:08 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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On Sun, 5 May 2024 22:54:19 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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https://imgur.com/a/R0ARmN0
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ALL the Linux "equivalents" are pure junk compared to this masterful
Windows application.
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It's proprietary but free of cost for personal use.
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Along with other apps, the creator has worked on it since 1999.  ONE
competent, dedicated Windows developer puts to shame the entire universe
of FOSS crapware developers that have tried to do what this guy does.
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Linux has a command (with the same name) that outputs TONS of info, but
it's basically unreadable.  The output is made for... I don't know who
the intended audience is, but it's not regular users.
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This app is yet more PROOF that in a world where Windows exists, there's
no reason to run Linux on your desktop.

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It doesn't prove squat, GUI-boi.

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You're mocking him for enjoying a GUI? What decade are you in?
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 The 2020's, where I can use vim, gnu autotools, meson, gcc/g++, clang/clang++,
slrn, mutt, mpd + ncmpcpp, alsamixer, git, latex, ssh, and more in a terminal
window.
 I do use gvim when I want edit two or more source-code files side by side.
Use zathura to read PDFs. GIMP for photo-tweaking. Libreoffice for short
how-tos. Conky for system info. GUI browsers mostly. And of course the sddm
display manager and the fluxbox window manager.
 I'm not mocking him for enjoying a GUI, I'm mocking him for crowing like
a fool about it, as if there's only one true way to us a computer.

I have to admit that there are certain things that are a lot easier to do in the command line. I've very much appreciated the "libreoffice --headless convert-to ODT *.docx" line.
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Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
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