> > I don't understand this "have to reboot to do something windows related"
Ah, I see. Right now that comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24051085 says:
> Of course Windows-only things are only on Windows. But a lot of Windows-only things have non-Windows-only alternatives.
, which seems less inflammatory. EDIT: Oh, wait, I see—I think you're going a couple more levels up, to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050905 :
> I've used linux on my desktop for 20 years, I don't understand this "have to reboot to do something windows related", I guess I just use computers for very different things to you.
I read this more charitably, not as saying "why would someone need to use Windows?" but more "I don't need to use Windows, so I don't regard it as a universal need". (That, in turn, came from mmm_grayons's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050677 :
> And use what instead? I generally use linux on my desktop but have to reboot fairly often to do something windows-related. Libreoffice botches document formatting every time I use it on something above "hello, world." Lots of stuff still only works on windows, though wine compatibility is getting better.
which I read, again perhaps unfairly, as suggesting that it is unrealistic for people to consider a computer workflow that doesn't involve Windows.)
Perhaps still more charity (or clarity) would have been appropriate, but the explicit acknowledgement that there are different purposes for which different people need computers seems to me to defuse much of what one might perceive as hostility or dismissiveness there.