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From: Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:05:42 -0400
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
>Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 15:11 this Thursday (GMT):
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>>>On 4/24/2024 8:02 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>You installed a vanilla distro
>>
>> ???  What does that mean?  It's a popular distro, so what?
>>
>>> and you run some Windows apps in Wine. 
>>
>> No, that's mIRC and Agent, not everything else, dummy.
>
>If it works, it works?


Right, I use those two apps because of familiarity and having them
configured to my liking, and they run well under Wine.  It doesn't
mean I don't use native Unix-like apps.


>>>What's the cool part?
>>
>> It doesn't look like Russell's lame system.
>>
>>>> is "odd" in some way, I guess, it's not just going into
>>>> Best Buy or whatever and coming home with a prefab machine.  But I do
>>>> believe I make Linux look good.
>>>
>>>To make Linux (any personal OS) look good, you need a sweet desktop and 
>>>wallpaper, shown on a large hi-def monitor, and ideally connected to a 
>>>beastly PC.  A hottie standing nearby in a bikini with a snake around 
>>>her shoulders would help, too.
>
>You can also draw a ton of custom desktop icons and add a bunch of
>utility scripts


Might be interesting.


>> I have a 4K monitor.
>
>Oh cool! Do you have window scaling on?


Actually, under Win11, it automatically scaled stuff to look "right",
but under Mint, I literally get four times the pixels of a 1080p
monitor, it's badass.  I like it that way, I can see the small text
and such clearly.  Switching OSes was an upgrade in that way, as it
was in a lot of ways.

-- 
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.