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Re: Gotta' Love Linux

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Gotta' Love Linux
Date	2017-04-22 00:16 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
Message-ID	<akcv003.ahb@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 2:19:37 PM UTC-4, owl wrote:
>> -hh wrote:
>> > On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 8:40:25 AM UTC-4, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> >> owl wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> >> > -hh wrote:
>> >> >> On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 6:29:18 AM UTC-4, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> <brevsnip>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Heh, reminds me of grad school, where I was composing
>> >> >>> my Ph.D. dissertation ... 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> An undergraduate student group ... is now on MS-Word
>> >> >> as it makes soft & hard prints via Adobe PDF ... 
>> >> >
>> >> > If only someone could figure out how to generate pdf documents from latex...
>> >> 
>> >> LOL  The -highhorse sure is a numbnuts, isn't he?
>> > 
>> > Oh, poor PWNED Chris Ahlstrom continues to stoop to
>> > the jealous low road of namecalling.
>> > 
>> > 
>> >> Why the HELL would I pay Adobe and Microsoft to do what I 
>> >> can do without cost, and faster, with vi, LaTeX, and pdflatex?
>> > 
>> > Have you actually done an honest & objective cross-comparison
>> > to come to this claimed conclusion?  
>> > 
>> > For if you actually did, then you must know and be able to
>> > immediately share just what the differential savings metric 
>> > from which you came to your **informed** conclusion was, so
>> > then let's have your performance metrics.  
>> > 
>> 
>> Linux/vim/pdflatex:
>> 
>> O.690 seconds for a 336 page pdf.  Cost: $0.
>> 
>> vs.
>> 
>> Windows 10, cost approx $100
>> MS Word, cost approx $100
>> Installation time for both, approx 8 hours @$150/per hour for my trouble.
> 
> And this, kids, is an example of what allegedly passes for "analysis" from
> a Linux Advocate on COLA.   Needless to say that it is both utterly 
> incomplete on the Linux OS side and illustrates utter incompetence on 
> the Windows OS side (as well as an overinflated claim of self worth).  
> 
> TL;DR summary:  "owl advocacy FAIL".
> 

TL;DR summary:  Linux + vim + pdflatex == 85660-page PDF in ~2 minutes. 
http://imgur.com/a/TGhDS

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Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-21 08:32 -0400
  Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-21 15:30 +0000
    Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-21 19:19 -0400
  Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-21 08:55 -0700
    Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-21 18:19 +0000
      Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-21 15:44 -0700
        Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-22 00:16 +0000
          Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-22 07:47 -0400
            Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-22 08:49 -0400
              Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-22 13:14 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-22 21:38 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-22 14:52 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-22 22:09 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-22 20:59 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-22 18:18 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-22 22:00 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 14:22 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-23 10:37 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 15:37 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-23 12:21 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 17:05 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 10:17 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-23 15:28 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 23:25 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 16:42 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 19:03 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-23 15:18 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 12:31 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-23 10:49 -0500
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-23 12:21 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 19:05 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 14:15 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-23 10:53 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 15:09 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-23 12:20 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-23 17:23 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 23:14 +0000
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-22 18:49 -0700
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 22:59 -0700
              Re: Gotta' Love Linux DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-22 20:55 -0400
                Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 23:00 -0700
        Gotta' Love LaTeX Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-22 07:32 -0400
      Re: Gotta' Love Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-21 19:31 -0400
        Re: Gotta' Love Linux Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-21 16:45 -0700
        Re: Gotta' Love Linux -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-21 17:51 -0700

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