Re: Ubuntu

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:

Stallman got so mad at a printer that he devoted the rest of his life to
demanding everyone's code.

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What printer?  Is this a real story, or just an expression of
Stallman's philosophy with a euphemism?

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https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201d-redux-a-testimonial-about-the-injustice-of-proprietary-firmware

 
Would you suggest we'd be better off relying on M$ et al, then? 'Cause
it'd be a tough sell, to me, when I see how they fucked over millions
of Win10 users, in their Win11 beta test, culminating in 20H2 and
later builds.  In 2019, Win10 turned into bug-infested beta crud,
publicly forced on victims, and then in 2020-2021 it was simply a
preview of Win11, bloated to a point it ran like ass on older systems.

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You're greatly exaggerating.  Win11 runs as well as Win10 on older systems.

Heh, "as well as" meaning not well at all, yeah, maybe.  Current Win10
is just Win11 Light.

This is the bullshit you praise. 

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Above GuhNoo crapware?  Of course.
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But, to be fair, I haven't installed a full distro to bare metal in a
long time - like 2+ years.  So hopefully there are significant improvements.

There is some truth to Winblows software being supreme.  I don't deny
it.  But to require their OS, is a deal-breaker.

And they're doing just as much evil
with Win11, which is what prompted me to stop using it. 

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What 'evil' are you referring to?

Bloat^N.

You are more
than welcome to the product key I gave you, for any useful purpose you
find for it, if you haven't yet.  I don't want it back. 

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If you change your mind, I haven't given it away.

Trust me, I wouldn't have given it to you in the first place, if there
were a chance I'd change my mind.  I paid $200 for it.  But that's a
write-off, now, because I have no purpose for it, not even a VM.
Please do use it.

I will not disgrace my precious computer with M$, again.

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You already did, Gollum.  The minute you installed Wine you turned your
GuhNoo crapbox into a half-ass Windows machine, and admitted Linux isn't
fit for its purpose.

I run Forte Agent and EncSpot under Wine, yeah, big deal.  It's still
a Linux machine.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.