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This item has a fairly even periodicity of previous submissions here at HN. I'm not quibbling about resubmissions, just wondering what is the motivation re: this particular piece? EDIT: Replies and not downvotes would be appreciated.

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Does it need one? There's a longish list of perennials. Mostly what they have in common is that they're interesting to first-timers and pithy enough to be worth a re-read for the rest of us. Someone comes across it for the first time, or are reminded of it, and bob's your uncle it pops up again as a submission.

Yup that's right - reposts are fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and it's good for newer cohorts of users to get access to the perennials:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As I say, not quibbling about resubmissions, just wondering what is the motivation regarding this particular piece and not generically.

A lot of people here put Unix on a pedestal, so finding a published book that so explicitly hates Unix is quite novel. Furthermore, the criticism doesn't come from the typical demographic, Microsoft Windows users.

It's novel and amusing, much like 4chan is novel and amusing.

It's like the frequently questioned answers of C++: always a good read. https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

Possibly because of this mention in the comments of a recent El Reg article about Wayland:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/11/29/rhel_10_...

That's one of my articles, so I'd be very flattered if it were so!

(Thanks to @DonHopkins for pointing this out to me.)

I'd love to see the UGH text put on a Wiki and collaboratively updated to reflect the 202x realities.

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