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    Platforms

    Mac
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    you buy an expensive house and everything is where it should be and you are proud of your new home .... often the builder comes back and tells you the sofa belongs to him and he is changing the cover ... or he is building a through-passage between the lounge and the kitchen oh yes and he is painting all that yellow bright yellow oh no grey


    Windows
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    similar to above but the builder comes backs rips some rooms down and makes them worse than before and somehow makes it that it is slower to move through the house; he then hikes your repayments


    Linux as it first was
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    the builder can't be bothered so he has told you he knows where the bricks are and here are the keys to the van; actually use your own. the windows are here there are glass panes and some wood he has told you where to buy a hammer ... he says he knows a guy in Mongolia who sells carpets; use your van


    Linux in 2019
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    same as above BUT specialist master builders of all possible trades make themselves available to you 24/7 on something called the net; they do it for free and 95% of them are really kind and helpful ... they have also left one million clear instructions on the net too .... also the masterbuilder has built a comprehensive frame you can weave into to suit thyself

    In the last 2 the masterbuilder charges NOTHING .... he accepts your gratitude but does not crave it


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    Re: Platforms

    Yup, pretty much sums it up

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    Re: Platforms

    I've always found this to be appropriate.
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    Re: Platforms

    Amen Bro!
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    Re: Platforms

    Put Linux to one side and consider the Desktop Environment and the User Interface. Henry ford is quoted as saying: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Developers of the DE & UI sometimes have an attitude a bit like that.

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    It is a machine. It is more stupid than we are. It will not stop us from doing stupid things.
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    Re: Platforms

    Quote Originally Posted by grahammechanical View Post
    Put Linux to one side and consider the Desktop Environment and the User Interface. Henry ford is quoted as saying: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Developers of the DE & UI sometimes have an attitude a bit like that.

    Regards
    That is a great point, and reminds me of this...

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