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Re: Why do you guys use Linux?

From Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why do you guys use Linux?
Date 2016-10-12 17:47 -0400
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On 2016-10-12 5:40 PM, Marek Novotny wrote:
> On 2016-10-12, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-10-12 4:35 PM, Marek Novotny wrote:
>> 
>> < snip >
>> 
>>>>> You're not right. Thunderbird by extension supports Google
>>>>>  Calendar and GnuPG. So once again, you're just making
>>>>> bullshit up. I have teh functionality you claim I don't
>>>>> right in thunderbird. Fact: I run Thunderbird and I have
>>>>> access to my google calendar and GnuPG. I do not need
>>>>> Evolution.
>>>> 
>>>> Wow, you've turned into your own version of Peter haven't
>>>> you?
>>> 
>>> I don't have a problem with Peter. You do.
>> 
>> Because you've been bitten by one of the "advocates" and have
>> since turned into one yourself, complete with a taste for human
>> flesh.
> 
> Now you sound like Snit.

Uh huh.

>>> Was that supposed to be a slap? Noted... The only problem I
>>> have is with your obvious trolling. And you're lying about what
>>> you're doing. You're not discussing important issues. You're
>>> just trolling.
>> 
>> It's not my fault that you have no idea what "native" means when 
>> referring to an application and that you believe that using
>> plug-ins still means that certain functionality is "native." If
>> you did, we wouldn't be having this back and forth discussion.
> 
> Right.... Keep telling yourself that. I'm sure it sounds good to
> you.

Well, it's the actual way of saying it. If you're not aware of it,
it's your problem. Popular publications like Maximum PC determine the
terminology, not unknown Usenet users. If they say native for
something built-into software, most people will recognize THAT
definition, not your tap-dancing.

>>>> I never claimed that Thunderbird couldn't add the
>>>> functionality through a plug-in, I claimed that Evolution had
>>>> it built-in which was an advantage for me. Evolution uses
>>>> whatever key is imported into Seahorse (or a similar key
>>>> manager) and has built-in GnuPG and Google Calendar support
>>>> whereas Thunderbird requires you to _add_ the functionality
>>>> through a plug-in. The fact that Thunderbird ends up with its
>>>> own key manager and only supports GnuPG if you add Enigmail
>>>> makes it less interesting to me than an application which
>>>> already has it because the latter ends up implementing it
>>>> better. I still often have to press CTRL-Enter twice to post
>>>> a message to a newsgroup because the plug-in keeps telling me
>>>> that "encryption failed" even if I didn't encrypt.
>>>> 
>>>> Hell, it just happened again now "Send operation aborted.
>>>> 
>>>> Error - encryption command failed" but it will suddenly work
>>>> if I press CTRL-Enter again.
>>> 
>>> I think you mean signing. What message are encrypting? I'm
>>> using slrn right now and I'd have to manually decrypt it, which
>>> I am not doing.
>> 
>> The error message was posted to you as it was presented to me. I 
>> assume that they meant signing (which I do with every post) but
>> they referred to encryption specifically. As it is a common theme
>> for open-source applications, the developers of Enigmail decided
>> to be as cryptic as possible in explaining what the problem is.
> 
> Whatever. I'm not having any issue with it. And you don't need to
> sign every posts. What's the point of that?

I just feel like it.

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  Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 18:54 -0400
    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ebinsageman@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 16:09 -0700
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