This is true for nearly anything imaginable, not just Linux.
> The community alone is enough reason to avoid linux.
If you selectively pick the worst of any given (tech related) community, you'd probably be using nothing.
Yes, it is, but that doesn't mean you should be doing it if you actually care about linux.
> If you selectively pick the worst of any given (tech related) community, you'd probably be using nothing.
I'm not selectively picking anything. This is the part of the community I am constantly exposed to because it is the part that evangelizes.
That's definitely why you're hanging out on a website built for armchair intellectuals. There's definitely no bias on the selection of people who visit and comment here. /s
However, it's also quite inappropriate to completely ignore the main point of someone else's comment and vent all these frustrations on them for using the informal term "fanboying", and I don't think that doing so contributes anything to the current discussion about whether GNU/Linux is vulnerable to this rootkit.
You probably shouldn't be. All this "fanboying" annoys the hell out of people because faboys are constantly trying to sell linux as the solution to all problems, and then when people give them reasons why linux isn't a solution to their problems they get really defensive and start using canned excuses like "well it works for me", "you didn't pick the right distro", "normal users don't need that", "you need to research your hardware", "you have the source so you could fix it yourself", or even "Windows/MacOS have problems too!".
The community alone is enough reason to avoid linux.
note: in this instance, "linux" is being used as shorthad for "the GNU/Linux Desktop".