Subj : Re: Community
To   : Bex
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Oct 15 2022 23:45:25

 Be> Bo> Take random people off the street and ask them if they've used Windows
 Be> Bo> MacOS or Linux, and tell me the result.  Ask them what they use at
 Be> Bo> home, what they know.
 Be> 
 Be> That doesn't make any sense at all. Half the Windows users won't know
 Be> what version of Windows they use, there'll be a lot of people who have
 Be> no idea that there's something besides Windows, and a whole bunch of
 Be> people will answer with the equivalent of "who cares?"
 Be> 


 Be> No, it wan't, your argument said that Linux was a niche product. If you
 Be> meant your argument to be something else, you should have specified that.
 Be> Words have meaning, and meaning is important.
 Be> 

I don't think it really matters because my view is that it is niche.  Niche isn't a pejorative, it is simply a statement.

 Be> Bo> You're either being unnecessarily pedantic, deliberately taking my
 Be> Bo> argument in bad faith, or genuinely not understanding it.
 Be> 
 Be> No, you just did what you seem to do a lot when someone makes a point
 Be> that you can't refute: you try and change the subject and say we
 Be> misunderstood your original statement/argument.
 Be> 

I don't believe I'm disputing any data regarding use rates of Linux, where and who uses 

"Seem to do a lot".

I don't think so.

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