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Linux is definitely not in the top 5 places I'd think to ask this.
Like I said, it's a stretch. But this isn't some rampant issue or particularly time consuming. They should just ignore the question if they don't want to answer it. People online just have such a hard time ignoring things.
And before someone else feels clever: Yes you could theoretically levy the same critique at me (though I'd disagree), but I would rather skip that part of the conversation as it is equally unproductive.
No, we should be discouraging such posts to begin with. So how about I just report the post in the hopes of getting it taken down then? Would that be better? Because it certainly doesn't belong here... and neither do apologists that let happen.
Post reported for breaking rule: "Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel." Happy now?
Yes actually. It’s what you should have done in the first place.