Sometime Today, RB cobbled together some glyphs to say:
job and thank you for this site. Just stop bashing windows or their users.
and I ask you not to club all linux users and linux developers into a single group. One or two people may bash windows and windows users. They are not representative of the community as a whole. Many linux developers have probably not used windows long enough to make judgements about the OS or its users. OTOH, many have worked on more operating systems than most people will ever hear of in their lifetimes, and they understand good design when they see it, and try to incorporate it into their own designs.
Linux developers do not ask for help from anyone, least of all, hardware vendors. All they ask is that no one do anything to deliberately prevent them from doing their work.