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Re:I Like Makefiles by IshKebab on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:19PM (#41612046)
This is such a dumb egotistical gatekeeping take... You think you're superior because you use something niche.

Some people just don't want to have to worry about laptops melting in their bags... or hard rebooting when they run out of RAM.

If someone said something like this to me in an interview I would definitely not hire them.

Re:I Like Makefiles by zelphirkalt on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:17PM (#41612412)
> You think you're superior because you use something niche.

Ah? Interesting! Tell me more about what I think!

> Some people just don't want to have to worry about laptops melting in their bags...

That is funny, because this is what happens with Windows installed, due to nonsensical system default settings. I've almost had that happen with Windows 7 once, due to an idiotic default setting regarding when the system is to wake up from hibernation, so that it turned back on while in my bag, inside an inner protection bag, nicely accumulating the heat.

Recently there was a whole long thread of people describing such problems with Windows machines. Here on HN.

Perhaps you are the one, who is not properly informed? Or are all those experiences with Windows machines somehow null and void, invalid?