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Yes, but it’s also funny, and not mean-spirited or targeted at a specific person. Windows users are in no way a protected class.



No, it's just targeting a specific group of people with false facts, while not being remotely funny, unless your choice of humor revolves around shitting on users for their OS choice, aka petty tribalism.

Humor is more complex to get right, it needs some punchline or an arc within the context where your initial expectations are subverted, in order to be funny, not just "windows users are like X".


Hold up there, joke police. Petty tribalism is actually funny. It’s gross tribalism which goes too far.

Listen to Garrison Keillor’s old radio shows, and amidst the long story arcs are little tribalist jokes between the Christian denominations (and Unitarians?), and among the different peoples of Scandanavia. Like this one, the jokes rely on the implicit context inflating the difference between people on the basis of tribalism. And being a part of the subculture, the audience all knows this.

The same is true in sports comedy, and sports is nothing if not petty tribalism. And while you may not actually have to be a masochist to be a Mets fan… wait, bad example. Anyways exaggerated differences based on self-assigned fandoms is how this all works. Just like operating systems.


An OS is a tool, not a sports team. And that supposed joke was not funny no matter how you try to slice it.

It's as funny as calling Mac users Sheeple.


I hate to break it to you, but I think you don’t have a good sense of humor. This is fine, everyone is different and that’s okay.

Minor teasing is a part of the theory of humor, as proposed by Immanuel Kant. I don’t purport to go all the way on superiority theory, but insult comedy is a part of comedy nonetheless. I personally dislike it but I do recognize it as humor.

Incidentally regarding the part of my previous comment that’s a joke: the joke is not the insult. The joke is a surprise theory one, that I was going to make a statement about sports, but at the last minute I reversed by pretending the example was true. The butt of the joke is myself, talking myself out of a coherent point.

Of course by analyzing it you ruin it for most people, but there we are.


You do realize that what you personally defined as "humor and teasing" against a broad userbase is against HN guidelines, right, which is why it got flagged?

Also, something being humorous requires it to be funny and get people laugh, but I don't think many are laughing as making fun of Windows users jokes have been stale since the days of Windows Vista, Mac VS PC ads were the rage, and Steve Jobs still had a pulse.

If that canned joke still makes you laugh in 2023, maybe your sense of humor is bad.




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