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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:20:20 -0800
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On 2024-12-11 16:13, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> It's about the degree of feature implementation, Apple is lightweight.
>>>>> Without M$ Office and Adobe, and movie editing, Apple would be
>>>>> nothing.
>>>> Without application software ANY personal computer is nothing.
>>>
>>> Microsoft produces the OS and applications, and games.  The open-
>>> source world does much the same for itself.
>>
>> The "open source world" is not remotely the same thing as a private
>> company.
>>
>> And if the only apps available for Windows were the apps that Microsoft
>> offers and Apple had all the apps it currently has...
>>
>> ...Windows would instantly flop.
> 
> 
> But M$ *does* have the diversity of production that Apple is a little
> light on.

And it's irrelevant to the quality of Apple's hardware or operating systems.

> 
> 
>>>> And the fact that Microsoft also happens to be an application writer is
>>>> neither here nor there to the issue of the quality of the Mac and its
>>>> operating system.
>>>
>>> Macs are good at being Macs.  Linux is superior software, though, and
>>> so is M$.
>>
>> In what way is any Linux software superior.
> 
> 
> You are astoundingly blind not to see it, you think free == not as
> good.  It's not really the truth.  Commercial-OS apps have rarely
> mattered to the extent Microsoft would love for you to believe.

So you cannot articulate a single thing.

Got it.

> 
> 
>>>> And BTW: hands down, one of the very best movie editing packages in the
>>>> world is Final Cut Pro...
>>>>
>>>> ...produced by Apple.
>>>>
>>>> <https://fcp.cafe/cut-on-fcp/>
>>>>
>>>> As one of the finest music production packages is Logic Pro...
>>>>
>>>> ...produced by Apple.
>>>
>>> No argument.  But what about an Internet person like me, where the
>>> choice of OS really makes no difference?  It's obvious why I'd
>>> therefore like Linux.
>>
>> No. Because every time you've been challenged to explain, you run away.
> 
> 
> I could use macOS, Winblows or Linux, and it would make little
> difference in my tasks.  But it's certainly most straightforward to
> attack that with Linux and its software, along with this Windows app
> Forte Agent for Usenet.

You think "Forte Agent" is something special do you?

What do you do with it that I cannot do with Thunderbird?

> 
> 
>>>> Answer his question:
>>>>
>>>> How is the Finder's GUI materially different (and implicitly lacking)?
>>>
>>> It's not feature-rich like M$.
>> So you're comparing a file manager to a company now?
>>
>> In what way is the Finder not "feature-rich" when compared to "File
>> Explorer".
>>
>> Give a specific example.
> 
> 
> You ever hear of the second mouse button?

Yup. But it isn't a feature of the file manager, and the Mac has 
supported a second mouse button since 1997.

Try again, but get it right for a change.

>