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On 11.04.26 23:45, Andrew Hewitt wrote:
> On 11/04/2026 21:20, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>> On 11.04.26 21:51, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>>>> In your humble opinion of course eh! ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Just a pedantry point - one that always irritates me. How do you know
>>>> things are crap if you haven’t tried them?
>>>
>>> I used Apple's office applications some 10-15 years ago for a test
>>> period. Performance and compatibility completely insufficient.
>>> Short period later I decided that non FOSS software is not acceptable
>>> anymore for me.
>>
>> Software I use and is important to me has to run on Linux, macOS and
>> Windows.
>>
>> Even on my Macs I usually do not use Apple software.
> 
> That's a much better response, and understood that there is a need 
> there. I get that. I have also sometimes looked into multi-platform 
> software solutions, and for sure, you generally have to look to FOSS 
> most of the time, although not always.

Not all tasks are important enough to make that mandatory.

> More recently though I have abandoned my research into using Linux, as 
> there are no simple, or acceptable, solutions to some of the major 
> features I need myself. Although one day, perhaps, financial constraints 
> may force the issue.

I teach Windows for a non-profit organisation. Privately I use macOS
most of the time and as fall back I have two Linux laptops which are
always at the same level as the Macs. I still believe that macOS is the
most stable and optically the most attractive OS. A Linux Ubuntu running
Wayland comes very close on my 27" Dell screen.

The FOSS software I use most is  Firefox, Thunderbird and Libre Office
on all systems.

> Windows I have never intended to use as my primary system. I have to use 
> it in my work envirnment, but that's all.

Another CSAM-desaster by Apple would be the end of macOS for me. What I
also would never accept is that Apple - like in the UK - hast to stop
E2E-encryption of iCloud (most of it) because the government is
blackmailing Apple to open backdoors. The UK-situation is not acceptable
for a Democracy.

Jörg


-- 
"Roma locuta, causa finita" (Augustinus)

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