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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft just put this controversial Notepad feature behind a
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 07:16 this Thursday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>>Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 20:49 this Monday (GMT):
>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>>> wrote:
>>>>Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote at 11:10 this Friday (GMT):
>>>>> On 20/02/2025 12:50 am, Tyrone wrote:
>>>>>> On Feb 18, 2025 at 9:17:46?PM EST, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Running Windows in a VM is one thing, I'm using Wine as I type
>>>>>>> this to run Forte Agent as my preferred NNTP client, under Linux,
>>>>>>> but putting Win11 on bare metal just makes no sense, unless you
>>>>>>> have very recent hardware.  M$ is not supporting stuff for long,
>>>>>>> even Win10 realistically requires a certain threshold to perform
>>>>>>> well, and 11 is just insane.  And Apple is a money pit.  Linux is
>>>>>>> the only option.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Linux is AN option.   Certainly not the best for most users.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Certainly not the best for most users" ..... because they have Windows
>>>>> and.or Apple shoved down their throats from, what, Primary/Elementary
>>>>> School days .... so that they will be locked onto those tracks for life
>>>>> .... unless they get adventurous and try something else!!
>>>>
>>>>And companies refuse to try anything else.
>>>
>>> You being a younger Linux enthusiast are vital to the community and to
>>> the effort.  You are where the rubber meets the road, in competing
>>> with M$, and I do the same as a middle-aged person, because I'm so
>>> young at heart.
>>
>>Thanks I think
>
>
> Yeah, sorry, I do get carried away being a character, but in
> seriousness you are a pro.


Maybe not a /pro/, but I do have some experience with Linux.
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