The incessant
Holy Wars that
evangelists of all
OSes fight
zealously in. These can be from a
hardware perspective, such as
Mac zealots vs.
Anti-Mac zealots, which usually encompasses
bitter disputes over the
OSes of said
computers. More
software-specific, though, are usually
disputes over
PC OSes, most notably
Windows vs.
*nix. However, the
dichotomy isn't quite that exact. You can get into
disputes within the
*nix OS community, such as
Linux vs.
BSD, and thus even
FreeBSD vs.
OpenBSD or some such
drivel.
You tend to see less and less
Holy Wars as you get more
OS-specific, such as the
FreeBSD vs.
OpenBSD example. I have never
seen, but I have
concieved of something as
ridiculous as something like a 2.2.x
kernel vs. 2.3.x
kernel dispute, and I hope people don't start wasting
time with
crap like that.
OS Wars are
characterized as
Holy Wars because the
combatants tend to have
unshakeable opinions towards their
OS and its
rivals (though not neccesarily are
close-minded). This usually means that the
incessant arguments over the
superiority of one
OS over another will simply make a bunch of
people pissed-off, with no-one "
winning" the
arguement. Much like
religious evangelism, wouldn't you say?