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Oh, you're making me cry. I'm leaving HN anyway, since it's already in a downward spiral. Sayonara.

You are a faggot. I hope you'll lose a finger or two to yakuza.

You. Yes. YOU. The guy who down-votes this post. You are what is wrong with HN.

Really? Is this what you understand from guidelines? What's your next post? "I found a very delicious and interesting recipe on web. It was delicious and I think it's worth sharing with hackers ♥." Get out of here.

Maybe the blame is this stupid, non-central ranking mechanism which makes idiots like you and OP motivated to dump such stuff here for points and down-vote any criticism that does make sense.

Why the hell was this posted on Hacker News anyway?

Apple builds fancy gadgets and gathers a fan-boy population, and eventually starts selling more. This really doesn't say anything about Linux desktop.

This whole thing about backward compatibility and the discussion that surrounds it is just vague. Here's a practical "true story" for you: I'm using GNU/Linux for more than 10 years now, and it is still alive.

Never had any vague binary compatibility problems either, because I'm not strangely expecting to use an ancient binary version of Gimp on my current system. That's because FOSS is source oriented, not binary. I'm not suddenly trying to use a 15 years old graphics card whose driver is longer in the kernel either, because I don't use a 15 years old graphics card.

Yeah, tell me about those genius ideas invented by Apple that only 10 Einsteins could have come up with. Rounded corners? It's too fortunate for that that nobody patented their "innovative" stuff 50 years ago because it is totally ridiculous. Want some respect as a company? Do something like research.google.com instead of trying to screw people over with overpriced candies and screwing other companies when they put their hands in your honey jar.