Oops, sorry about that!
Intention was to highlight how MS, that fought with *nix tooth and nail, now they are adopting more and more ideas from *nix, basically moving towards being best enterprise Linux.
Intention was to highlight how MS, that fought with *nix tooth and nail, now they are adopting more and more ideas from *nix, basically moving towards being best enterprise Linux.
Comments like this one take threads in predictable, uninteresting directions, and—what's worse—they often get upvoted, accumulating mass at the top of the thread and choking out the specific interesting stuff.
"Windows v Linux" is a classic example of a generic black hole, sucking passing spaceships into a state from which no light can emerge: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
To be fair, this is a co-creation between the comment and the upvotes, and the upvotes are more to blame. But the idea of that guideline is to refrain from introducing black holes in the first place, so the spaceship can poke around something interesting in the vicinity without collapsing, screaming, into an irreversible fate.
Related explanation here if anyone wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26894739. Note the point about diffs—that's key. Diffs are what's interesting!