"""I care what he is writing because his perspective is similar to my own. I don't care what operating system he is using."""

So, you:

(a) "care what he is writing because his perspective is similar to [your] own", but: (b) "[you] don't care what operating system he is using.".

I fail to see how (a) can be conciliated with (b), given that he is writing about "what operating system he is using", that is the very thing that you "don't care about".

It's not the only part where you defy logic and embrace contradiction...

Responding to another comment you invoke the car analogy to invalidate my argument, but when someone confronts you you tell him that: "It is only the people with exotic cars and computer setups (Linux on the desktop for example) that have a concern."

Are you not aware that we are talking SPECIFICALLY about the second case here, "Linux on the desktop"? Is there any special logic employed here?

Linux is an exotic car. People trying to push linux on the general population so that they have an "easier time getting parts" are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too. I don't care if the expensive/exotic car is Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, Plan 9, BeOS, OSX,... ...It's just fucking annoying.

Interestingly, if you are unable understand that, I don't really give a shit. I believe I have now clearly articulated my position, the rest is on you.

"""Linux is an exotic car. People trying to push linux on the general population so that they have an "easier time getting parts" are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too."""

One of the worst analogies I've seen in my life. And I've seen lots. Where to begin?

(a) There are supposed to be people that "drive expensive cars that think that everybody else should too"?

(b) And (those mythical and "annoying" people) do so because that way the would have an easier time "getting parts"?

And all this BS (that doesn't even make sense, anyone here met a Ferrari driver that believed that everyone should drive one so he can get parts easier? WTF?) is supposed to be an analogy to people promoting Linux on the desktop?

This discussion is not about someone saying everybody should run the "exotic" Linux on their desktop, it's all about people making changes to Linux (Unity, etc), in order to make it less exotic and more fit for the desktop.

Except if you think that Linux will forever be exotic. In which case you are mistaken.

"""Interestingly, if you are unable understand that, I don't really give a shit."""

Interestingly? Hardly. You have a tremendous difficulty in expressing yourself coherently.

"Any of your arguments as to why we should would apply equally well to cars, but you never see people have that conversation."

Reading comprehension FTW.

Yeah, "you never see people have that conversation", and then you go and use that exact conversation as existing to back up your argument:

"""are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too."""

So, Linux people wanting "networks effects", are "just as annoying" as exotic car driving people that DON'T EXIST.

Writing skills, FTW. Maybe next time you can invoke unicorns to back up your arguments too. You never see them, either.