> 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.
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.
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.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.)
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...
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.