[smorrebrod]

> But they really don't. They might have familiarized at one point of time, but that snapshot is not where the world is at now. They cannot really expect that the world around them will stop developing, so their know-how and hacks stay current.

Maybe we have different experiences. I am not working in a computer related industry so the people I know who use Linux are the only one following tech news, self hosting services, etc. So in my experience they are more familiar with their software. But my point of view is necessarily incomplete.

What I wanted to say was that people who do not know enough to be able to not run in circle, do it because they feel attached to them after becoming familiar with them after so many hours learning their paradigms, their inner workings, etc.

Again, it may be my incomplete POV but I have never seen any Windows user look at source code to try to understand a particular function to adapt the software to their workflow. I've seen numerous Linux users do this.

[dale_glass]

> Again, it may be my incomplete POV but I have never seen any Windows user look at source code to try to understand a particular function to adapt the software to their workflow. I've seen numerous Linux users do this.

It exists, but in smaller numbers than you'd hope for.

Eg, Slashdot is full of greybeards who apparently believe computing peaked in the 90s, learned next to nothing since, and as a result can't understand why systemd does what it does.

I don't mean they disagree on the technical merits, but like they're confused as to why would a Linux system needs functionality that caters to a modern desktop laptop user, and it's not enough to have what was required in a server room in the 90s.