Comment by ori_b

2 days ago

Why does liking something different from you imply there's a war?

There is often a neo-tribalistic mentality.

"My tribe is better than your tribe"

Some people thrive inside this mentality, whole others don't go near it.

Not everyone is thinking like this but a lot of people do. So because of that it's a common heuristic to think of it as "war" because there are some people who do that gladly.

  • In computing this is almost a tradition (Commodore vs Atari vs PC, Windows vs UNIX vs MacOS). It hasn't exactly hindered progress, I'd rather call it healthy competition ;)

    Still though: Amiga 4 ever! :D

It doesn't and I never said anything about preferences directly. There are however culture wars, and they cause problems throughout the industry and discipline.