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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:31:10 -0400
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On Thu, 4/3/2025 3:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:57:15 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 1, 2025 at 12:38:05 AM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:23:40 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... you are doing incredibly stupid shit.
>>>
>>> Isn’t that a redundant thing to say about Dimdows users? ;)
>>
>> No, but that is the kind of response I would expect from a Linsux user.
> 
> Let’s just say, it’s not Linux trying desperately to become more like 
> Windows, it’s Microsoft desperately trying to make Windows more like 
> Linux.
> 

Microsoft copies "features", it does not particularly care where
they come from.

The TaskBar today in Windows, has a feature that makes it descend below
the bottom edge of the screen, yielding more screen space. Microsoft
did not invent that, but the MacOS did at some point in the past
(perhaps MacOSX 10.1 or so). Since that's optional, you won't see
that happening on every user desktop here.

Powershell has tab-completion. And that likely came from tcsh,
Rather than claim Linux invented that, it would pay to read
the Wiki first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcsh

When my project at work, designed computers and an OS,
we copied mercilessly from things before us. There were
*complete* environments already in existence. It predated Linux.
It would be silly to claim anything we did there was "totally original".

All OSes are like that now, they copy things from elsewhere, until
they're all the same. the only thing that prevents some OS projects
from doing that, is a lack of manpower, not a lack of intent.

And some OS projects were beautiful... and nobody copied those.
That's why my screen looks like crap, in Windows. Won't someone
copy a good way of rendering stuff ?

Some things are "religious issues".

For everything else, you copy, you copy mercilessly.

   Paul