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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:30:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-25, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-03-24 17:59, pothead wrote:
>> On 2025-03-25, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> At one time Agent was a good program but it's a fossil these days.
>> The spell checker is way behind the times.
>> The configuration in the latest version is a nightmare and spread out all over
>> the place and basic items are not easy to find.
>> 
>> Why run a very outdated program when Linux offers better alternatives?
>> Try PAN or Thunderbird.
>> 
>> p.s I get it if the OP has a zillion messages saved and wants access to them.
>> 
>
> Migrating such data CAN be a pain...

And I fully understand that.

-- 
pothead
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