[Confiks]

This comment is so beautifully in-character for the thread, and completely fulfills OPs characterization of people that "do indeed seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time bickering about which popular apps best fulfill their purity tests".

[mavhc]

If they didn't care about software they'd just use whatever came pre installed on their computer

[yjftsjthsd-h]

We are here because we are deeply interested the software that we're using. If one group of programs does something that tends to suck, then we're going to call it out.

[mantap]

Just remember, you get what you pay for.

[lbeltrame]

To be honest I spent at best 3 minutes writing that post; compared to the time I put in FOSS projects...