Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Alex Rønne Petersen" <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 10-03-2012 20:23, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>> On 10-03-2012 18:58, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Then you must be running a very different Linux from the one I use. In
>>>> my experience, it's Windows that's an order of magnitude less 
>>>> responsive
>>>> due to constant HD thrashing (esp. on bootup, and then periodically
>>>> thereafter) and too much eye-candy.
>>>
>>> This. On the other hand, OS X has all the eye candy and is still 
>>> extremely
>>> responsive. ;)
>>>
>>
>> That's because they cram [their] hardware upgrades down your throat every
>> couple years.
>>
>>
>
> No one forces you to upgrade.
>

That's true. They just say "You *could* stick with your ancient two-year-old 
machine...You'll be shit out of luck when you need to install anything...but 
yea, we'll *cough* 'let' *cough* you do it...hee hee hee."