• Matombo@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Also people who use pc as a synonyme for windows. fuck those guys and guydedts.

    PS. Macs are also PCs as PC describes the hardware and the usecase unrelated to the producer and the installed os.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.

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      Language changes over time and words don’t mean the same thing forever. The entire purpose of language is to communicate. So if you have a Mac and say you are a PC user, you are failing to use language well. Apple themselves helped facilitate that change. It can be less consistent with Linux on a PC, I agree. But language is an evolving meme (as per the original definition of meme, not the cat photos). And to not acknowledge that is like being a young earth creationist with language.

      Do you also argue that anyone who is happy is part of the LGBT community?

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        1 year ago

        But PC has not made this transition universaly which makes it a very ambigues word. It is still used a category of electronic devices regardless auf operating system. Also if you say PC = Windows PC and MAC = MacOS PC what is the overarching Category? and ? = Linux PC?