Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Sorry, Mac Fans: Linux Is Actually the Better Windows Replacement Date: 25 Aug 2025 03:53:14 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <108em7q$2n7im$1@dont-email.me> <108f52c$2r00q$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aMaDmeUFWuEdYRYs8ur31wFdwaH+CqpxkMWZ9F7ohp8tDPZAor Cancel-Lock: sha1:YcfFjmWsVsM0DzAwZxlXR87ssyk= sha256:S5r3EINHl/rnxeO4taZGCZhh879EoPcFEByOVvr9T9I= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.164 (UA6; f8e650a6; Linux-6.16.2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:695891 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:1162 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:136766 On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:45:48 -0400, -hh wrote in <108f52c$2r00q$2@dont-email.me>: > On 8/24/25 05:32, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:52:22 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote: >> >>> But no, buying a fucking Mac is not the answer. It's too expensive. >> >> And lacking in expandability and versatility... > > Although when one reads of anti-Apple folks who replace their GPU card > multiple times and then have to replace their fried motherboard from > their DIY'ing... > > ...there's certainly a whole bunch of folk who would benefit from an > "appliance" that reduces the odds of them fat-fingering breaking it. > > > -hh There's also this matter of "expandable", which Macs _do_ have, with the advent of "external pcie", aka "thunderbolt". -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.16.2 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18 NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G "If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!"