I am an old hacker, and proud to admit that I have never owned a Microsoft product.

I am a young(ish) hacker, and I'm proud not to engage in religious nonsense like this at all. Windows, Linux, OSX, who cares? Get on with the coding already.

A real craftsman cares for the tools he uses. And it's not a religious issue - it's just that the thing is taking up space on an NTFS partition. I can store better stuff in that space.

A real craftsman also cares about having the output of his craft be useful/enjoyable to other people. And sometimes this means, having to make it work on a system that other people use, and not the one that you use. Just saying.

Sometimes a real craftsman needs one of those esoteric tools that they usually have no need for.

> Windows, Linux, OSX, who cares?

Because they're different. Craftsmen like to learn and make distinctions and use the best tool for the job.

Their keyboards and mice are excellent. My Z-80 SoftCard II probably still works.

I cannot stand their keyboards. Gushy non-mechanical switches and awkward non-standard layouts. Pshh!

The natural ones allowed me to cut my pain medication ;-)

Not that I wrote that, I also noticed I no longer use any Microsoft software. That can also explain the pain medication...