Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-03-24 20:45, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

I could use Agent simply for its archives of old messages, and use
another app for live Usenet functions, but I *like* using Agent, for
all its datedness, it still does what I like it to do.

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Right.
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Meaning that Linux cannot fulfill all of your needs.

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That's patently stupid.  I could use something other than Agent.  I am
using Agent under Linux.  Deal with that.

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No. You're using Agent in an emulator under Linux;

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Not exactly, no, it's not emulating anything, it's literally providing
the answers to API calls as if it were really Winblows.

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Which is precisely what "emulation" means.
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A process makes an API call that would normally be made to the Windows OS...
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...and WiNE emulates the response.

  Nope.  It translates it into something Linux or macOS understands.

That is what "emulation" means.

 

costing you
performance, when you claim that your needs for performance are so high.

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Not really, I have a great system.

So you say...
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...but you need to use Windows applications to fulfill all your needs.

  I could run Windows 11, on this machine.  It would simply be inferior
to running Linux, and using Wine sparingly.

And yet you need Windows applications to make your computing experience whole...