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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 17:23:46 -0800
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On 2024-12-11 17:21, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> You still can't find a single specific way in which Linux software is
>>>> superior.
>>>>
>>>> Got it.
>>>
>>> It's the overall experience.  Linux easily passes the bar.
>>
>> Another non-answer...
> 
> 
> Play an MP3 on Audacious and it's just as good as Winamp.  Write a
> letter with LibreOffice, although admittedly it's just as great on
> Winblows too.  You give up nothing of real value by using Linux.

And how are those comparisons with macOS; the subject under discussion?

> 
> 
>>>>>> You think "Forte Agent" is something special do you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you do with it that I cannot do with Thunderbird?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's the most comprehensive GUI interface I've seen for Usenet.
>>>>
>>>> And you can't run it on Linux...
>>>
>>> You can, with Wine.
>>
>> Then you're admitting that Linux needs the help of Windows software to
>> be "superior".
> 
> 
> Not very much of it.

Still, it's an admission that Linux can't cut it without Windows.

What else do you run under WiNE?

> 
> 
>>>>> [Microsoft Windows] File Explorer has features embedded in right-clicks.
>>>> So does the [Apple Mac] Finder.
>>>
>>> "The" Finder.  You talk about it like it's not just some second-rate
>>> crapp by Apple.  Really hilarious.
>>
>> That's just how it has always been referred to.
> 
> 
> Yeah, they tricked you into mimicking the phrasing.

Who cares?

> 
> 
>> But I guess it was a great way to avoid admitting you were wrong.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> 
> I never saw Finder to have the robust features of M$'s file browser.

Name ONE feature you used that you didn't see in the Finder?

> 
> 
>>>> Contextual menus were introduce to Mac OS in version 8...
>>>>
>>>> ...in 1997.
>>>>
>>>> At just the same time as they added support for a second mouse button.
>>>>
>>>> Imagine that!
>>>>
>>>> Try again, but maybe check your work before you speak.
>>>
>>> My memory of such with Snow Leopard was that it was very basic.
>> So your entire claim that macOS is "inferior" and "simple" is more than
>> 15 years out of date.
>>
>> Got it.
> 
> 
> I had the MacBook in 2010.  It was an experiment.  I ended up not
> liking macOS.
Nevertheless, you pontificate 14 years later as if you know all about 
how macOS works today.