The whole schmeer doesn't run on my Mac.
It doesn't run on your *Mac*?!? Who gives a shit???
What the fuck are you; some kind of artist?!? Sorry, I mean -- some kind of artiste???
Buy a fucking normal computer, like a fucking normal person.
This may have been a pathetic attempt at humor. But it was too pathetic an attempt to interpret that way, hence I didn't. Therefore I applied logic.
The only "fucking normal computer" on which VB works is Windows on x86. The argument that this is what a "fucking normal person" would do is an argument from popularity. Specifically an argument from popularity to use Windows. The normal response to someone saying, Do X because that is what everyone does is the line, Eat shit, a billion flies can't be wrong. (Or trivial variations thereof.) Hence my response.
In short Peter's complaint that it doesn't work on his Mac is reasonable to me. His complaint that it also doesn't work on his Linux machine is reasonable to me. Your response that he should be normal and run a normal computer (by implication Windows) seems stupid to me. Which fact I proceeded to point out.
If you still think that my reading comprehension lacks, please clarify.
Regards,
Ben