yeah I was speaking historically. I use a Mac M1 at work and I like it. I know the newer machines are even better. I am not sure based on what I read mostly, that Apple Si is better than Zen, better at certain things but not all things. MacOS is better than Windows11, Windows11 is a steaming pile that should make anyone forced to use it want to scream, I know I do every encounter.

I love my Slackware PC at home. I XFCE is a better UI than MacOS at least if you are willing to tailor things to your liking.

"By the 1970s these 'bombed to shit' countries were outcompeting American manufacturers in their own domestic market."

LOL
"I'll just prove his exact point for him!"
Thanks man!

LOL...you seem reallly bent up about this.

Out of curiosity, what utopia do you live in pray tell?

I pay mine off all in full at EOM....seems a nice way to get some perks, convenience and some cash back....

And my point - Not much of modern Linux is hampered by lack of funding. And the Linux movement has a long history of contributors who were essentially sponsored by their employers. NASA, for instance, had a few key contributors who took time form, full-time duties to make Linux much much better.

Amazing how Mr. Regulations, suddenly gets it when "wrong people" people are able to use them to obtain a barrier to entry.

Yet regulations are never a problem, when small shops are threatening to out compete big union controlled entities, private schools make public education officalls running indoctrination mills look like clowns, etc.

No infringement on the rights or property of adults is to great if it advances your Bolshevik agenda; but when government actually steps in to protect people who actually are able to be responsible for their own well being, like children, suddenly - government bad...

Very interesting indeed... Says so much about you!

Yeah but Work 6.0 on Windows was actually pretty good. It had everything you'd expect for the most part even in a contemporary word processor to day.

I don't think if took Word 2019 away from most users and gave them 6.0 they'd care much, if you could some how make the document compatibility issues vanish.

The problem with Word on Mac's was the Macs, by the time PC got 33 or 66mhz 486 CPUs, PCs were just better than Macs all around.

So much this. Unless there is a reason you CANT continue without an update, or possibly on first run, you should never ask a user to update on start up. They already use the software. They did not click it because felt installing something right now. The clicked because they wanted to do something. Let them! Ask if they want to update on close and do it in the background!

If you feel you really must, you can pop up the 'what's new' dialog the next time they fire it up.

"Our science was actually really screwed up, but that doesn't matter, because our conclusions are still right, because we already knew the right answer."

tl;dr - research before you buy.

For people reading this thread. I'd recommend searching online about how well the suspend-resume works on Linux for the laptop model(s) you are interested in purchasing. Also worth looking into issues with very short battery life while in Linux. Because a lot of the power management ends up buried in some OEM options for the chipset windows drivers rather than properly expressed in the BIOS/UEFI.

Officers in charge of these kinds of programs rotate on to a new assignment after 3 to 5 years. Contractors keep personnel on staff whose whimsical title is "project manager" but whose real job is to work the rotating cast of government program managers into keeping the program going.

In such an environment it is almost structurally impossible to contract smart for any program that takes more than a few years from start to finish.

Lol, cogent conservative responses here get modded to oblivion.
Frothing leftist flamer "Insightful"

Slashdot is so ideologically captured.

Did you think the benefit of being the 'only surviving industrial infrastructure' faded what, a week after ww2? /huh?

Sorry, I meant "Memory Sticks". Also, after reading the full summary above, I was unaware that they also used to make SD or Compact Flash cards

Forgot to add: it was Macau that was ceded to Beijing in 1999