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Comment by vikramkr | Hacker News Reader

Honestly I think the whole "having a title that leads to the opposite conclusion as the details" move is a very bad idea. I think it likely most people will not read the article or the comments and the outcome of writing and sharing this article in that case will be increasing anti-linux sentiment, the exact opposite of what the author would have hoped for.

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The title is as factual as it can be. If you were expecting a different conclusion, it may have been due to prior biases.

If the title said "Mac users" instead of "Linux community", would you have expected a different conclusion?

The pre-existing cultural context is that "everyone knows" this fact that Linux is "garbage" and has "way more bugs." This is a title that directly feeds into that. You can fuel misconceptions with pure facts - that's 50% of politics. If it had been amc sinstead the conclusion would have been "oh wow, Mac gaming really must not be ready yet" if seen int he context of a gaming forum or "oh wow, Mac must be worse than I thought" otherwise. The average common fool on the street and the average highly successful corporate executive both think bug reports are bad. The audience of people who will actually read the article isn't the majority of the audience that'll be influenced by it.

Also the title might be factual but the actual article is about Linux users, not Linux, which is one way it's very easy to mislead with "facts"

Also yes, duh, my point is that the prior bias in question is the common one that's being reinforced by the title

Interesting. I didn’t misinterpret this title as you did. I assume if the content is really about what you think, the title should be something like “38% of bugs comes from…” or “38% of crashes comes from…” instead of this

I think the point is that ultimately, only 3 bugs were platform specific and most of the additional reports were bugs that affected everyone.

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