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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: YouTube Linux advocate: Linux could surpass Windows on the
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:19:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:29:45 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2024-10-22 8:04 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:47:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I've owned products from both Android manufacturers and Apple and I
>>> have yet to see Android behave like anything more than a clunky
>>> version of iOS.
>> 
>> You didn’t notice that Android did multitasking from the beginning,
>> instead of trying to add multiple Morse-code-encoded functions to a
>> single button?
> 
> I had an early Android device. The multitasking on it was no better than
> what iOS was offering.

IOS couldn’t even do background tasks. Android could, right from the 
beginning.

>> Workstation-type functionality, like advanced network and filesystem
>> stacks, only available as standard on Linux, not Windows.
> 
> So you have no evidence but feel comfortable making baseless claims.

Read all about it: <https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2>,
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bind-mount>.