Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:21:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 89 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:21:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0b06d8f13df09e73feeaff299ae6e160"; logging-data="1911964"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VAgis5o8/pAlUZ8y56zLwnIyNZs1WgL8=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:s33aJ8ymoXkjpoW9RX+cW3F0nek= OS: Debian 12, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Alan wrote: >>> You still can't find a single specific way in which Linux software is >>> superior. >>> >>> Got it. >> >> It's the overall experience. Linux easily passes the bar. > >Another non-answer... Play an MP3 on Audacious and it's just as good as Winamp. Write a letter with LibreOffice, although admittedly it's just as great on Winblows too. You give up nothing of real value by using Linux. >>>>> You think "Forte Agent" is something special do you? >>>>> >>>>> What do you do with it that I cannot do with Thunderbird? >>>> >>>> It's the most comprehensive GUI interface I've seen for Usenet. >>> >>> And you can't run it on Linux... >> >> You can, with Wine. > >Then you're admitting that Linux needs the help of Windows software to >be "superior". Not very much of it. >>>> [Microsoft Windows] File Explorer has features embedded in right-clicks. >>> So does the [Apple Mac] Finder. >> >> "The" Finder. You talk about it like it's not just some second-rate >> crapp by Apple. Really hilarious. > >That's just how it has always been referred to. Yeah, they tricked you into mimicking the phrasing. >But I guess it was a great way to avoid admitting you were wrong. > >:-) I never saw Finder to have the robust features of M$'s file browser. >>> Contextual menus were introduce to Mac OS in version 8... >>> >>> ...in 1997. >>> >>> At just the same time as they added support for a second mouse button. >>> >>> Imagine that! >>> >>> Try again, but maybe check your work before you speak. >> >> My memory of such with Snow Leopard was that it was very basic. >So your entire claim that macOS is "inferior" and "simple" is more than >15 years out of date. > >Got it. I had the MacBook in 2010. It was an experiment. I ended up not liking macOS. -- 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.