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Comment Re: More wasted RAM (Score 1) 149

My unibody MacBook shipped from the factory with the max 4GB RAM config, and it thrashed under real use in 10.6. It took Apple a couple of years to ship firmware that would recognize 8GB; we were stuck with 6GB for a while.

I guess some people don't really use their computers very hard.

Comment fake news / reading failure (Score 5, Informative) 118

I went two articles deep looking for the root-level citation. Here it is:
"Some systems even look historic like they were designed on Windows 95."

Read that again. "Look historic like." Not *are* Win95, or indeed Win3.1. Probably just VB6 applications with outdated controls.

But nobody bothered to read two articles deep, and then somebody tweeted authoritatively that they were running Win3.1, and now it's a Known Fact. This shit pisses me off so much. Great example of how stories grow in the telling.

Comment Buy a Mac (Score 4, Informative) 300

Linux is a self-service operating system. If you want to use it, then just use it. Try distros until you find one that works for you. Don't get sucked into distro-specific ways of doing things e.g. yast, or you won't understand the underlying configuration logic. Be prepared for everything to not work, and be prepared to make system administration your hobby.

Please don't lie to people and tell them that Gimp is as good as Photoshop, or LibreOffice is as good as Microsoft Office. They're shit, but you get what you pay for. Most people are better off just buying a Mac. You can run those shitty apps on macOS, too, but you also have the option to run decent commercial software. Pirate it if you can't afford it.

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