Every now and then, you'll find someone who makes it a point to turn every computer conversation into a display of their prowess with a non-conventional OS such as Linux, and often branching off into how it's superior in all ways to Windows.
Now, I respect Linux and it's users. I'd put my money in it over MS-anything anyday. But, it always seems that some people will use any opportunity to make a sarcastic quip on Microsoft (as if it's breaking news that their stuff screws up a lot), or talk about spending their weekends configuring Linux boxes, or scoff at you when you open up an Internet Explorer window as if you've offend their standards... and it's really freakin' annoying.
Drawing conclusions
And so, what does this mean? Especially to anyone who doesn't know what the hellLinux is?
The "unconventionalist", while forging a unique path, can be a reallyannoying person if you let them.
For example, take people who subscribe to the whole "Organic food" thing, or people who have "refound" Jesus. Or, for example, take those folks who preach the merits of homeschooling their own children, or Fiona Apple's 1997 MTV Music Award speech, or any liberal activist, or that one person who always compares everything American to the "much more advanced Europeans". Valid points? Maybe. But their about as welcome as a weepy televangelist.
If Columbus went around Spain scoffing to others, "*tsk*, you still think the world is flat? You are so lost...", he'd have been hung, and we'd have some other explorer to name cities in Ohio and Georgia after.
P.S., long story short, this isn't just about those people who get their OS's for free without pirating it (as most Windows users do). This is a gripe with any crusaders who unnecessarily drag you into a lecture every time they have the room to plant their soapbox down. NT or RedHat, it's all about how you get your job done at the end of the day. I don't preach to you about the merits of usability and uniform interfaces, so please don't preach to me about stability and secure kernels.
And, as Fiona Apple said so eloquently at the MTV music awards, "...go with yourselves."
And so, what does this mean? Especially to anyone who doesn't know what the hell