&gt; If I posted an article about Linux 4.1 or something, I wouldn&#x27;t expect to see comments saying &#x27;meanwhile, I used Windows yesterday, and played GTA5, and it was good&#x27;.<p>Back in the 90&#x27;s when there was more of a religious fervor around Linux the way there is around Bitcoin right now, yeah you would have.<p>The vitriol is no mystery, it&#x27;s an obvious reaction to the way so many people have rapturously talked about Bitcoin as if it&#x27;s going to make governments irrelevant.<p>We&#x27;re at the beginning of Bitcoin being treated more like the novelty that it is, and possibly finding a niche where it can be useful over the long term. As it enters this phase where the hype around it dies down, the vitriol will as well.