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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 14:44:50 -0700
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On 2025-03-23 11:51, Joel 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.
> 

And yet you won't show the proof...