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From: Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:06:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-23, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>>> On 3/22/25 17:52, Joel wrote:
>>>>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> [A souped up Mac mini] would match what I have with Linux [in
>>>>>>>>> support of needed apps and use].
>>>>>>>> What actual tasks do you use the computer to complete?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Keeping everything I run loaded at once.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you run, and what resources does each use?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Take a look at my Cinnamon taskbar:  https://i.imgur.com/yPGDm6a.png
>>>> 
>>>> Um...yeah, so?   That you have ~25 Apps on your machine's Dock doesn't 
>>>> mean that you have 25 Apps running concurrently.
>>> 
>>> They are running, dude.  
>>
>>I can guarantee you that most will be idling or backgrounded by the OS.
>>Plus, that's nothing that a mid-range PC or base mac couldn't handle
>>easily. 
>>
>>Come back when you have some real demanding computing requirements. 
>
>
> ROFL, "come back when you", uh huh, no this is crossposted to a
> newsgroup populated by people with a pulse.  What I showed in the
> image was actually not as loaded as it will get with my system.  GIMP
> was the only extra thing running, not LibreOffice or any array of PDF
> windows or something.  I can eat up RAM.

Are people still rolling on the floor laughing?
I think even iPhone users stopped rolling on the floor.
RMES= rolling my eyes, snickering is the new funny.
RMES= rolling my eyes sneering is avant-garde, considered a compliment
and sexual inuendo simutaniously.

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