Comment by Dalewyn

I know there are many reasonable and respectable people in the Linux community, a lot of my friends are as such, but they are sadly not the guys at the forefront of Linux development and marketing at large.

I have no plans on reconsidering calling certain parts of the Linux community neckbeards. If they want to force their ideologies down other peoples' throats ("you fix your intellectual property problems", "proprietary code is evil", "use the terminal", etc.), I'll call them how I see fit. Respect is earned, as they say; and they certainly aren't respecting the users nor the world at large.

That aside, objectively it can't be denied that Linux doesn't satisfy most users' needs. If it did we wouldn't be having this discussion nor would Windows have 80~90% of the desktop market. You're fortunate to be someone that desktop Linux can sufficiently provide for, but not everyone is like that.

Windows/Mac/iOS/Android for all their faults can satisfy the needs and desires of almost everyone, it's something Linux critically fails and needs to improve on regardless of worldly aspirations.

Nvidia open sourcing large portions of their driver was a welcome turn of events, though like you I'm not sure if credit for it should be given to the anti-proprietary diehards... :V