On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:47 AM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 13, 3:02 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Why is it that only Linux and Mac users are accused of being "zealots"? > > Incidentally, in the post I replied to, Tamer was talking about > Windows 7, so there's that too.
I agree with what you posted. If there was a single bad thing I would point out to anyone about the Python community, it would be that there are a huge amount of "freetards" - people who believe that Linux is the only way, or that Linux is the best way. Protip: It's not the only way, and it's not always the best way. Use what works for you. If Windows works for you, great. Same applies to every OS. It's not then unreasonable to ask others for support for that OS - they may not have the ability to provide support, but it's always good to ask. If you have no choice in the matter, sucks to be you, but live with it. Worse things have happened than having to use Windows XP, as much as I *personally* dislike XP. Claiming that x OS is best, and that every other OS is rubbish is insane. Different operating systems do things differently, and are therefore suited for different tasks and for different people. Suggesting to someone that doing a task is easier on a different OS - "Yeah, I can't help you but I might I suggest you do Python development on Linux - these sort of problems are much easier to handle when you have a package manager system and Linux distros have awesome Python support" is fine and perfectly sensible - "USE LINUX OMFG!111!! YOU'RE SO LAME, WINDOZE SUCKS OMFG YOU N00B! I'M SO COOL USE MY HARDCORE GENTOO INSTALL THAT TOOK 36 HOURS AND SHAVED 2 SECONDS OFF MY BOOTUP TIME! LOOK AT THE SPINY COMPIZ CUBE! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID BEFORE I COULD MAKE MY DESKTOP CUBE-Y!", as in the post you referred to, is not. I see this kind of nonsense everywhere, but it tends to be in the Linux and Apple community more - I've no idea why, probably has something to do with being a minority. For reference, I am a Linux developer who uses Windows, Linux, *BSD and OS X, each in a place where it's suitable. tl;dr - Use what works for you. Suggest, don't preach. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
