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On 10/16/2024 10:00 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
> Le 2024-10-16 à 21 h 48, DFS a écrit :
>> On 10/16/2024 6:51 PM, Joel wrote:
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:30:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I guess you've never had to rename 100 files in a variety of ways. 
>>>>> When
>>>>> you do, you'll find out that compared to using scripts, ReNamer is
>>>>> extremely wonderful.
>>>>
>>>> Only 100 files? What a quaint toy.
>>>
>>>
>>> He's not wrong that there are some nifty Winblows apps for stuff like
>>> that, I admit that, but I've found the open-source community to
>>> suffice, I don't have *everything* I had under Win11, but would I
>>> *want* to have it at the cost of dragging my machine along, with the
>>> current release?  That's the bottom line:  Linux is sleek, Windows is
>>> bulky.
>>
>>
>> For as long as I've tested them, MS Office apps scream open and load 
>> documents MUCH faster than LibreOffice apps could ever dream of.
>>
>> Notepad++ opens in about 1/2 a second.
>>
>> Loading a 60MB .pdf in SumatraPDF is about 1/2 a second, and I can 
>> scroll to the bottom or anywhere in between immediately.
>>
>> I can right-click and get the Properties of a top-level folder of 67K 
>> files in 7200 subfolders in a couple seconds (SSD).
>>
>> My C console code loads 370,000 words into an array in 0.05 seconds 
>> (1/20th of a second).
>>
>> Getting the picture?  Just about everything I do on Win11 (AMD 5600G 
>> processor, 16GB memory) is screaming fast.  Linux might be a little 
>> faster at some of that, but not enough to matter.
>>
>> I've noticed the builtin Windows file search feature in File Explorer 
>> is often a serious dog - we're talking minutes to find file names 
>> matching a substring.  Ridiculous.  So for file-finding I often use 
>> Everything - another great Windows-only app that blows Linux 
>> file-finding away.
>>
>> Bottom line: Windows is sublime.  Linux can't compete.
> 
> Except that Linux doesn't have to. It's not trying to take market share 
> from Windows or MacOS; 

Contrary to basically every Linux user in existence who babbles 'Linux 
won / is winning / will win'.  Including Linus Torvalds, who spewed the 
delusion that the destruction of Microsoft will be an 'unintentional 
side effect' of Linux.

His dream of owning the desktop won't ever come true, either.


> it exists in indestructible form (due to the 
> possibility of forking) for people who either don't trust commercial 
> software or get fed up of how its closed nature seems to work against 
> the customer.

MS doesn't do themselves any favors by trying to force you to login to 
an MS account just to use Windows.  But I'm not concerned one bit about 
MS 'spying' on me or tracking my computing activities.

You're back on a Linux kick I see.

What distro are you running this time?