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Reading these comments makes me so happy to be a Linux/BSD user. The hoops you guys have to jump through in proprietary land. Wow, pay $$$ to be treated like shit. It's kinda like those guys that hire a dominatrix to belittle them and make them lick her heel, yet they get off on it.

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? We're trying for something higher-quality than that on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

As you wish, I'll keep my opinion to myself.

The opinion itself and the unsubstantiveness/flamebait are orthogonal. If you'd like to present your opinion in a way that gives the reader information and teaches us something, you're more than welcome.

It does take a bit of getting used to, but trading the pleasures of the internet rant for curiosity, which requires more measured conversation, is worth it in the long run. Think of it as a global optimization of the forum, which involves letting go of local optima.

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