+1 I feel a lot of the "ThinkPad running GNU/Linux" crowd I described were originally descended from the Usenet crowd, and the culture propagated. They are th

+1 I feel a lot of the "ThinkPad running GNU/Linux" crowd I described were originally descended from the Usenet crowd, and the culture propagated. They are the Unix die-hards who refuse to use non-FOSS solutions at any cost, and actively are hostile to Microsoft (and maybe Apple/Google). Whereas the people used to top posting were trained that way because that's how Outlook worked.