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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 12:20:51 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-05-07 8:08 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 5 May 2024 22:54:19 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>>> <6638465a$0$8092$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
>>>
>>>> https://imgur.com/a/R0ARmN0
>>>>
>>>> ALL the Linux "equivalents" are pure junk compared to this masterful
>>>> Windows application.
>>>>
>>>> It's proprietary but free of cost for personal use.
>>>>
>>>> Along with other apps, the creator has worked on it since 1999.  ONE
>>>> competent, dedicated Windows developer puts to shame the entire universe
>>>> of FOSS crapware developers that have tried to do what this guy does.
>>>>
>>>> Linux has a command (with the same name) that outputs TONS of info, but
>>>> it's basically unreadable.  The output is made for... I don't know who
>>>> the intended audience is, but it's not regular users.
>>>>
>>>> This app is yet more PROOF that in a world where Windows exists, there's
>>>> no reason to run Linux on your desktop.
>> 
>> It doesn't prove squat, GUI-boi.
>
> You're mocking him for enjoying a GUI? What decade are you in?
> < snip >

The 2020's, where I can use vim, gnu autotools, meson, gcc/g++, clang/clang++,
slrn, mutt, mpd + ncmpcpp, alsamixer, git, latex, ssh, and more in a terminal
window.

I do use gvim when I want edit two or more source-code files side by side.
Use zathura to read PDFs. GIMP for photo-tweaking. Libreoffice for short
how-tos. Conky for system info. GUI browsers mostly. And of course the sddm
display manager and the fluxbox window manager.

I'm not mocking him for enjoying a GUI, I'm mocking him for crowing like
a fool about it, as if there's only one true way to us a computer.

-- 
Q:	How do you save a drowning lawyer?
A:	Throw him a rock.