Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-03-24 5:42 p.m., Alan wrote:

On 2025-03-23 11:54, Joel wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:
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He's [JWC is] more like scabies:  really irritating and difficult to get rid of.

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OK, Mac user.

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You might have as well said "air breather".
If you need assistance with insults, I can help.
Can and will aren't equal.
I think your nym as "Buffy" would be more insightful.

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The point is, Sn!pe can't talk high-and-mighty about me, a Linux user.

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A Linux user would need additional accolades to be high-and-mighty.
I'm only 5'10" but I'm somewhat strong.
Tough to be everything at once.

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Sn!pe gives me no reason to believe she uses the command line.

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I used vim to type this.
It's up to the "user" to "use" what works for them.
That's real equality.

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I'm using Forte Agent under Wine, but you see, that's for Usenet,

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Which is basically an admission that Linux isn't up to the job.

 He prefers the Forte Agent interface for some reason, I believe that chrisv here does too. There's nothing wrong with that. There are decent Usenet readers in Linux, but some might just be used to whatever they first used.