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> Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. To be fair, some of us were smug as hell. I once picked an argument with a guy simply be

by unmole 5y ago

> Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. To be fair, some of us were smug as hell. I once picked an argument with a guy simply because he was wearing a Microsoft t-shirt.

allenu 5y ago
Ah, in those days I remember friends referred to Microsoft as The Evil Empire. I think there was also a little bit of "friendly" debate over the superior OS at the time. (I ran OS/2 Warp for a number of years myself.)
- techrat 5y ago
  Oh the days of being on Slashdot and getting downmodded to -1 Troll because you dare to suggest that Windows is a usable operating system and not type Micro$uck or some other variant. I was actually quite fond of WinNT4. Lean and stable. Microsoft being the Evil Empire and facing antitrust for bundling Internet Explorer was, of course, cheered on... meanwhile very similar groups of geeks these days see no problem with Apple only allowing Safari to be the web browser engine on iOS...
  - nobleach 5y ago
    Oh my gosh... that Bill Gates Borg avatar....
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Unfortunately this trend continues in the Linux Desktop community. It seems it never outgrew its teenager mindset.
- techrat 5y ago
  I think most of the teenager mindset moved towards the Apple camp. Apple has been far more restrictive and anticompetitive than Microsoft ever was at its worst. Mention something like how Safari being the only allowed web engine on iOS and get downvoted, don't agree that Google is the ultimate evil and point out they're open sourcing Android, Chromium and etc... get downvoted. The embrace of Apple on tech sites is something I'll never understand considering the attitudes that were prevalent when it came to Microsoft just a decade or two before.
  - amelius 5y ago
    Also compare the immense output of Microsoft Research versus the almost non-existent research output of Apple.
terrywang 5y ago
Almost everyone has been through that "mine is better than yours" distro war phase, adopting Linux (distros) as a religion is just stupid ;-) Some of the gold I've accumulated over the years when converting Windows users and/or giving talks - All Linux distributions are the same: the Linux kernel, glibc and a bunch of GNU utils. - "Adopting Linux like a religion is stupid." - Thomas Cameron - "We've all been through my distro is better than yours" thing. - "The best Linux distro is the one that does what you need at the best cost." - Linux is NOT about the distribution but the kernel, it's about what the kernel can do. - Distribution is a way to wrap up what the kernel can do into a more manageable way.

by unmole 5y ago

> Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. To be fair, some of us were smug as hell. I once picked an argument with a guy simply because he was wearing a Microsoft t-shirt.

allenu 5y ago

Ah, in those days I remember friends referred to Microsoft as The Evil Empire. I think there was also a little bit of "friendly" debate over the superior OS at the time. (I ran OS/2 Warp for a number of years myself.)

techrat 5y ago
Oh the days of being on Slashdot and getting downmodded to -1 Troll because you dare to suggest that Windows is a usable operating system and not type Micro$uck or some other variant. I was actually quite fond of WinNT4. Lean and stable. Microsoft being the Evil Empire and facing antitrust for bundling Internet Explorer was, of course, cheered on... meanwhile very similar groups of geeks these days see no problem with Apple only allowing Safari to be the web browser engine on iOS...
- nobleach 5y ago
  Oh my gosh... that Bill Gates Borg avatar....

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Unfortunately this trend continues in the Linux Desktop community. It seems it never outgrew its teenager mindset.

techrat 5y ago
I think most of the teenager mindset moved towards the Apple camp. Apple has been far more restrictive and anticompetitive than Microsoft ever was at its worst. Mention something like how Safari being the only allowed web engine on iOS and get downvoted, don't agree that Google is the ultimate evil and point out they're open sourcing Android, Chromium and etc... get downvoted. The embrace of Apple on tech sites is something I'll never understand considering the attitudes that were prevalent when it came to Microsoft just a decade or two before.
- amelius 5y ago
  Also compare the immense output of Microsoft Research versus the almost non-existent research output of Apple.

terrywang 5y ago

Almost everyone has been through that "mine is better than yours" distro war phase, adopting Linux (distros) as a religion is just stupid ;-) Some of the gold I've accumulated over the years when converting Windows users and/or giving talks - All Linux distributions are the same: the Linux kernel, glibc and a bunch of GNU utils. - "Adopting Linux like a religion is stupid." - Thomas Cameron - "We've all been through my distro is better than yours" thing. - "The best Linux distro is the one that does what you need at the best cost." - Linux is NOT about the distribution but the kernel, it's about what the kernel can do. - Distribution is a way to wrap up what the kernel can do into a more manageable way.