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Well, if you would report a bug for Office 2003, the maintainers at Microsoft would react the exact same way. That is if you persist on calling through the corporate structure until you actually are able to contact one.

Either that or well, they'll simply ignore the noise of a user that doesnt give a damn about updating anything - so the user would not receive any potential patch anyways.

If you decide on choosing a specific distro, you should know what you're choosing. If what you are complaining is too much choice, then maybe MSDOS 1.x is the best operating system for you?

The beauty of Linux is customization. If you don't agree with that, then stay on MacOS. No harm done.

But if what you're complaining about is that you lack the skills to understand and investigate - without having paid anyone anything - then honestly, I think you are an ungrateful user that nobody should help out because it's a waste of (everybody's) _free_ time.

Be nice and maintainers will be nice, too. Be cooperative and they'll be cooperative as well.



> If you decide on choosing a specific distro, you should know what you're choosing.

Indeed. And when that distro is MacOS suddenly HN is up in arms about how "not understanding why developers are chosing it".




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