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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux? Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 15:31:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <9s645j1pehkhdkc7kjj3hbp2nnu93c4mfc@4ax.com> <66523fb2$0$1258345$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 17:31:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eb98d4530b341fa9b7ae112fd3b851ef"; logging-data="1263456"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19++auLqpDXo0qKrprNQMSA" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WcI9MYo1lKBylgTSmAvvgJP4BwU= Bytes: 4028 On 2024-05-29, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2024-05-29 1:38 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> On Tue, 28 May 2024 20:19:56 -0400, Joel wrote: >> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 09:04:39 -0400, Joel wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 01:55:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> No, because it's [WinXP] a good UI and some stuff still works..from >>>>>>> what I heard. >>>>>> >>>>>> Really?? That Fisher-Price toy-style UI was a “good UI”? >>>>> >>>>> You could switch it to look mostly like Win2000. >>>> >>>> You’re admitting that an even older UI out of the 1990s was >>>> nicer-looking than XP? >>> >>> 2000's UI was a bit enhanced over 9x, actually ... >> >> Really?? Now you’re resorting to comparing it with even older, DOS-based >> Windows to try to make it look good? > > Spoken like someone who's never used Windows 2000. That version of > Windows was spectacular, so Microsoft's decision to base XP on it was a > smart one. It was stable, fast and it looks better than every Windows > 95-like Linux desktop environment *to this day*. You're desperately > trying to bury it, but it is only because you're jealous that a bunch of > "untalented" programmers managed in 1999 to do something Linux > developers still can't manage to do twenty-five years later. Not one > person who looks at a Linux desktop environment today is impressed by > how it looks. Grab a random, non-technical person from the street and > show them Linux Mint and Windows 2000 side-by-side, and I promise you > they would choose to use the latter despite its obsolescence. Switch > Cinnamon for GNOME and the result would be the same. Your serious > delusion won't change that fact. None of these people give a flying Snit > if Mint uses the same kernel as is being used on supercomputers. I used Windows 2000. It's inferior to Cinnamon, or Mate or Xfce in my opinion. (Of course these desktops have the advantage of running on top of Linux.) But I can't quite understand why you run down Linux UIs that look like the Windows' UI — what is it about Windows 2000's UI that you think is somehow unique compared to other Windows desktops? -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine