alt Hacker News> It happens to run on billions of devices, after corporations realized they can profit from "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"
While hordes of people peddle that everyone should be using it like gospel.
> After living in a few quite different countries, I have to disagree.
Yeah dude, tell us about all the countries where cursing isn't impolite and unprofessional.
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> While hordes of people peddle that everyone should be using it like gospel.
You don't get that kind of widespread usage by mere faddism and preaching. A lot of people had to find it to be genuinely better than the alternatives.
Maybe the unprofessional hackers knew what they were doing after all.
Hello from Spain, you cultural colonialist. Here it is pretty typical to curse in professional environments.
While in formal professional settings it is rarer (and swearing at each other vs about a thing is generally always impolite) Russia, Australia, Iceland, Scandinavian countries generally have fewer issues inherently treating swearing as impolite vs a strong expression of emotion.
There’s even a comic about how common swearing is in a professional coding environment: https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/