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Because someone cannot make informed comments about the "other" party unless they have a reasonably deep knowledge of it, too.

Far too many Linux users, especially, make fun of Windows and if you dig a bit you see that most of their complaints are things that are solved with 5 minutes of googling. Some complaints are philosophical, and those I agree with, but even in that case, I'd be curious how consistent they are with their philosophy when for example Linux desktop environments due weird things.

Summarizing a bit: Linux users with years or decades of experience of tinkering as sysadmins with Linux frequently make junior-level user complaints about Windows usage, frequently based on outdated information about it.

I say this who has been using both Linux and Windows for a few decades now and has a fairly decent level of sysadmin skills on both.



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