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Le 01-03-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> On 01 Mar 2025 10:01:52 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Le 23-02-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>>> Start uncorking that champagne! 
>> 
>> Certainly not. It's a bad quality wine. People like it because it's
>> expensive and it looks like coca-cola, but I won't drink that if there's
>> anything else available. And at home I've a lot of better choices to
>> never need to uncork some Champagne.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a bozo!

It's a little bit better than idiot, but not by far. Even a limited
brain dead failure like you should be able to do better.

> Champagne is not about taste or quality.  It's about the visual,
> auditory, and even tactile excitement that it produces.

I have to drink some of it from time to time, so I know exactly what it
tastes. And there's nothing exiting about the knowledge that for the
same price I could have tasted something far better. Of course, I'm
French and you are American, so unlike you what I drink and eat is
important to me. You can't understand that some drink and food are
better than others and it's important for me to be able to put something
good in my stomach.

> Popping the cork is like setting off fireworks.  It creates a
> veritable explosion.
>
> The sight of the spewing and foaming contents is also a wonderful
> visual experience, and usually, people are deliberately splashed
> by the resulting fountain which causes further thrills.

OK, so for once, I'll lower my level to adapt to your level. You already
said here you shit in your basement. So for once, try to go to the
toilets instead. Then before pushing the button to throw everything
away: put your head in it. It wont be about the taste or the pleasure,
it will be about the experience of the veritable explosion provided by
the splash of the fountain. Nothing exiting about that? So don't tell me
what should excite me or not. 

For the record, when I say that Champagne is a bad quality wine, I
tasted some of it from their makers and some of it with a lot of
intermediaries. And the further you go from from the production
vineyard, the worse it becomes because it's very fragile and don't go
far away without issues. So I strongly believe that in the USA, it's far
worse than what I tasted.

So I'm certainly not interested in your bad quality tastes.

>>> The important milestone of starting the X GUI has passed.
>> 
>> Let say that 30 years ago, starting a GUI was a challenge. It isn't
>> one anymore.
>
> Only if one uses a pre-built distro.

No. Only if ones use the modern tools to get the job done.

> Configuring "from scratch" is an entirely different story.

That means nothing. You could have used your old .fvwm file. You could
have used tools that helps you recognize your screen. A lot of tools
appeared since the last time you checked to help you configure easily
xorg or wayland exactly to your needs.

Your inability to manage something easy, doesn't makes it difficult, it
only shows how incompetent you are. You should buy a Windows computer,
it will be faster than your computer, it will run out of the box and it
will stop to let you advocate Windows pretending you are advocating
Linux.

>>> Before today I had to work in the Linux console which can
>>> be a bitch.
>> 
>> Do you know you can use more than one console at the same time? It helps
>> a little bit.
>> 
>
> It only provides an illusion of convenience.

No, it provides you the possibility to have many terminals opened at the
same time. Being able to edit a file and to test the results of your
changes without the need to close the editor is not an illusion: it's a
real help.

> Using spatially separated virtual terminals in a GUI is the best
> situation.

I'm not saying that terminals opened on the same screen aren't better
than consoles opened at the same time which need to be switched to use
them. I'm saying that it's easier than only one console.

> You certainly try very hard to be an idiot.

Once again, your only word to insult me. Very limited. And, by the way,
I'm not the one who needs weeks, if not months, to install a GUI on his
computer.

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