Holy War

   Holy war is a long passionate argument over a choice (many times between
   two options) that touches an issue deemed controversial and/or "religious"
   within given community; to an outsider this may seem like a childish, hard
   to understand rant about an insignificant thing. In [1]technology circles
   holy wars revolve e.g. around [2]operating systems, [3]text editors,
   [4]programming languages, [5]licenses, source code formatting etc. Such a
   war separates people into almost religious groups that sometimes argue to
   death about details such as what name something should be given, very much
   resembling traditional disagreements between religions and their churches
   -- you would think that people being on the same ship (e.g. all being
   promoters of [6]free software) would at least get along better with each
   other than with outsiders but no, great many times these people hate each
   other over quite small details, though there is often a good reason too,
   just hard to spot to those without deeper insight (a choice regarding
   minor detail may tell a lot about that who makes it). In holy wars people
   tend to defend whichever side they stand on to the beyond grave and can
   get emotional when discussing the topic, leading to flame wars,
   [7]ragequits, [8]Hitler arguments etc. Some examples of holy wars are (in
   brackets indicated the side taken by [9]LRS):

     * [10]tabs vs spaces (spaces)
     * [11]vim vs [12]emacs vs [13]acme and other text editors (vim)
     * [14]free software vs [15]open source vs [16]proprietary vs whatever
       else (free software)
     * [17]Chrome vs [18]Firefox, and other browsers (none of this bloated
       shit)
     * [19]Java vs [20]C++, [21]Lisp vs [22]Forth and other [23]programming
       languages ([24]C, [25]comun)
     * [26]curly brackets on separate lines or not, and other [27]style
       choices
     * [28]KDE vs [29]GNOME (neither, both are [30]bloat)
     * pronunciation of [31]gif as "gif" vs "jif"
     * [32]Windows vs [33]Mac (neither, this is a normie holy war)
     * "[34]GNU/Linux" vs "[35]Linux" (GNU/linux)
     * [36]copyleft vs [37]permissive (permissive, [38]public domain)
     * [39]AMD vs [40]Intel
     * [41]AMD vs [42]NVidia
     * "Linux" [43]distros
     * [44]window managers
     * [45]Metric vs [46]Imperial units (metric)
     * Star Trek vs Star Wars, and other franchise wars
     * [47]Quake vs Unreal Tournament, and similar gaming shit
     * [48]gopher vs [49]gemini (gopher)
     * ...

   Things like [50]cats vs dogs or sci-fi vs fantasy may or may not be a holy
   war, there is a bit of a doubt in the fact that one can easily like both
   and/or not be such a diehard fan of one or the other. A subject of holy
   war probably has to be something that doesn't allow too much of this.
   Maybe a controversy of its own could be the very topic of "what is a holy
   war" in itself.

Links:
1. tech.md
2. os.md
3. text_editor.md
4. programming_language.md
5. license.md
6. free_software.md
7. ragequit.md
8. hitler.md
9. lrs.md
10. tab.md
11. vim.md
12. emacs.md
13. acme.md
14. free_software.md
15. open_source.md
16. proprietary.md
17. chrome.md
18. firefox.md
19. java.md
20. cpp.md
21. lisp.md
22. forth.md
23. programming_language.md
24. c.md
25. comun.md
26. programming_style.md
27. programming_style.md
28. kde.md
29. gnome.md
30. bloat.md
31. gif.md
32. windows.md
33. mac.md
34. gnu.md
35. linux.md
36. copyleft.md
37. permissive.md
38. public_domain.md
39. amd.md
40. intel.md
41. amd.md
42. nvidia.md
43. distro.md
44. wm.md
45. metric_system.md
46. imperial_units.md
47. quake.md
48. gopher.md
49. gemini.md
50. cat.md