[usgator]

I speak from personal experience only. The few people I know (I work, usually, in almost exclusive MS environments) act the way I mentioned. It's unreal how vehemently they defend this OS. Every time they say the holy word "Linux" I expect them to cross themselves.

One time our Red Hat server crashed and we got into a heated discussion that it had to be my fault because it is IMPOSSIBLE for Linix to crash. Yes, impossible, because they had NEVER seen it happen before. I guess my unclean, MS hands fouled it somehow. Guess I should recite the "act of contrition".

Just the mention of the word Microsoft {spit} sends them into a frenzy. I mean, come on, it's an operating system not a freakin' religion!

[N3WBI3]

To be fair, whenever a box goes down (windows or Linux) the first thing I do is ask what were you doing... its a normal diagnostic question. The answer is always 'nothing' and alas 99/100 times they were doing smoething that crashed the box.

How many linux people do you work with, and do you think thats right to apply it to people here on FR. BTW just for full disclosure, I am RHCE certified on RHEL3.

I suspect that you are percieving it differently, I joke a good deal about windws (boxes I have to restart at least once a month) with the other Unix guys around here but it is just joking..

[JCEccles]

Every time they say the holy word "Linux" I expect them to cross themselves.

Say "Microsoft" to the Borg-Gates fanatics and you get the same reaction. They just don't see it themselves.

I have a friend who once worked for Microsoft. Trying to persuade him to believe Windows is an operating system with flaws like any other piece of software is like trying to persuade a devout Muslim that Muhammad was a man with faults like any other man.

That makes me chuckle, of course, whenever I receive his nearly bi-weekly emailed alarms and alerts (he is an independent IT consultant now) to IMMEDIATELY rush this or that MS fix or security patch into my computers or suffer the doom and annihilation of civilization and all that is holy and good.