> What good can come of posting something like this, even if you've noticed a pattern or think you have? Drawing attention to the idea that maybe Windows reall

> What good can come of posting something like this, even if you've noticed a pattern or think you have? Drawing attention to the idea that maybe Windows really isn't the right choice. >Sam once asked me if HN should have a guideline about not attacking entire classes of people (in this case Windows users). He wasn't arguing for it, just wondering, and I thought it sounded too restrictive. Yet every time I notice a comment doing it, it's such a low-value comment that I get a little keener on the idea. Consider this - there's several kinds of cars. Most of them have four wheels and doors and can drive at highway speeds. But a substantial portion of the population drives three wheeled cars with doors on all but the driver's side that max out at 40 MPH, and they are ignorant of the fact that their cars are objectively worse. This is the state of Windows in hacker communities. This isn't really a "class of people". It's a bunch of hackers like us that are ignorant of the fact that they're driving crappy cars, and struggle with things that most of us have no trouble with because we drive proper cars.