Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be a

Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be about that, rather than the self-deprecatory joke answer. Certainly it was last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291. (Also, my own observation is that it’s regularly far more amusing to take jokes seriously, ignore sarcasm, and otherwise wrest humour.)