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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:46:14 -0700
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On 2025-03-24 15:57, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I'm using Forte Agent under Wine [in Linux], but you see, that's for Usenet,
>>
>> Which is basically an admission that Linux isn't up to the job.
> 
> 
> Nope. 

Yup.

> There are GUI newsreaders for Linux, but also console ones that
> are superb. 

And yet you choose not to use them.

> I like Agent because I used it for years and years before
> using Linux all the time.  It doesn't imply Linux can't run something
> equally good, in fact it's running Agent itself thanks to Wine.  How
> is that "not up to the job", pray tell, Alan

It's running it under emulation.

You're using computer resources to emulate Windows...

....and you can't see how that relates to your need to spend more on RAM, 
etc.