&gt; People want to be reassured that they&#x27;re doing the &quot;right thing&quot;, that what they&#x27;re doing is &quot;correct&quot; according to some external source of truth<p>I think this somewhat boils down to being able to take advantage of others experience. If you&#x27;re the only person you know with a Macbook, would you feel that you are able to take advice from everyone else with Windows desktops? ( Or maybe some poor analogy about tainted kernels and bug reporting :) )