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I've been interested in switching, or at least learning how to use Linux, for a while, and I installed Ubuntu as a second operating system on my desktop. However, it seems to me that the friendly and helpful Linux community that I've always heard about is, in fact, populated in large part by people like "name" in the worst-case scenarios, and people who are in fact friendly and try to be helpful, but still go over the head of most Windows converts in the best cases. Posts like the one made by "name" here are one of the biggest obstacles, I believe, to getting more people to consider switching, because whether Linux users believe it or not, Linux is not easier than Windows if Windows is what you know, and acting like an obnoxious prick does not help promote the ideal of the open-source community you hold so dear.