From: Anonymous References: <54WdnYvDl53EAyDFnZ2dnUU7-YnNnZ2d@giganews.com> <9v7rbc1d5pqafuct90889pjp50nickh6jo@4ax.com> <14uvA.82336$vF2.23406@fx46.am4> Subject: Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:29:34 +0300 (MSK) Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10 Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 194.109.206.211 Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:57743 comp.os.linux.advocacy:400369 comp.sys.mac.system:102219 alt.comp.os.windows-10:36506 In article Snit wrote: > > On 3/7/17, 2:57 PM, in article ei8oliFt54hU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly > Roger" wrote: > > > On 2017-03-07, Alan Browne wrote: > >> On 2017-03-07 15:32, Peter Köhlmann wrote: > >> > >>> Look up the groups. The dizum coward wanted to install a flame war, being > >>> fully aware that apple users are generally stupid beyond imagination, too > >>> dumb to use any real OS and incredibly jealous about linux users. > >> > >> LOL! I've run a half dozen or more distros of Linux but haven't been > >> forced to do so in years. I had SUSE and Ubuntu going (for curiosity's > >> sake) a few years ago in a VM - but after playing with them the only > >> thing I could admire about them was the package management in one of > >> them and less so in the other. (I seem to recall Ubuntu's was very > >> slick if too frequent). > > > > Many of us "Mac users" are actually multi-platform users and developers > > who run Linux, Windows, Android, and other platforms routinely. > > I know I use macOS, Linux, Windows, and iOS... and a dated form of Android > on horrible cheap devices, so that hardly counts. > > Right now my wife's computer is running Linux full time... the hard drive > died and it runs off of a USB 2 port. Is it perfect? Not even close... but > it is the absolute best choice for the hardware she has -- assuming I do not > want to put in money on a 10+ year old computer (and I do not). Cheapskate! Your wife should punch you in the nose and cut off the pee-hole. You can buy a quality enterprise grade PC off ebay for less than $100 and get decent memory capacity, a nice sized HD of 500GB+, min core 2 DUO. > I do what I suggest others do: use what I want. If that is Linux or Windows > or Mac or some combo that is all fine by me. > > > The Linux zealots here seem to want to pretend Mac users are somehow all > > idiots, probably as part of the delusional ritual demanded by their pussy > > inferiority complex. In the words of Our Dear Exalted Cheeto Leader: Sad. > > > -- > Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot > use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow > superior by attacking the messenger. > > They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.