"is a total cunt"

I agree completely with what you're apparently trying to say in a general sense, but with respect to precisely how you phrased it, it could use a little work.

"cunt" is a fairly common word in Australia, mate. Life does exist outside of politically correct, cultural Marxist bubbles.

I think he is being reasonable and helpful.

   Q. I can't stop fsck.
   Brian: You can add a parameter to kernel startup.
   Q. This does not help because I want to stop one that has started. I should raise a bug.
   Brian: Don't do that there is already a bug report at number ....

> Remedial action is not needed because the right choice was made from the grub menu. If it wasn't, you get to live with the consequences and don't do it again.

Is this polite or helpful in solving the issue? It's being preachy about the idea that nobody ever makes wrong choices, ever, and should definitely never be given the opportunity to fix their mistakes.

If only we could all be as perfect as Brian! I find it funny that he rants about choice. The thing I dislike most about systemd is that it is removing choice! I suppose I am just going to have to go and choose to use FreeBSD.

You've reworded what he said to make him sound a lot more polite. In fact on that last point, I had no idea what "Don't get carried away and start typing. #758902" meant until I just read your comment.

You just took what he said and completely reinterpreted it.

His attitude wasn't "don't do that there is already a bug report". It was "well you made bad decisions by (a) wanting to stop fsck in the first place and (b) not being prepared for it happening i.e. by setting up two GRUB options".

Did you read the other branch of thread that contains 180 email conversations about why his initially wrong answer was justifiable? I've given up reading after 10 emails since it was fairly useless. I think that thread is why this is posted in HN.

Yeah, this is precisely what I meant by "willful ignorance of specific issues being raised". :/

I really hope Brian is not like that in real life interactions.