One time, I took my laptop to a restaurant that my sister and I were meeting some of her friends at because I was curious about the restaurant's WiFi connectivity. My sister's friends in this story are film students. After exchanging pleasantries, as they were all talking, I took out the laptop and started kismet inside gnome-terminal.<p>My laptop happens to be a MacBook Pro, upon which I dual-booted OS X and Fedora, but mostly used Fedora.<p>One of my sister's friends leaned over and beheld that I was using Linux on my MBP -- they've tinkered with OSes a little bit so they know what Gnome looks like -- and proceeded to freak out. I was bombarded with questions like "Why would you use Linux when you have OS X?", "You could be using OS X right now! I understand why you'd use Linux if you had a PC but you have OS X!", "OS X is so much better and friendlier than Linux, and you can do so much more on it, why are you using Linux?", "Sure, a _developer_ can use it, I guess, but why would anyone else?", etc.<p>This discussion took over the night. All three of them now hate me because I chose to use Linux instead of OS X.