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This comment here is a prefect example of being unhelpful and inflammatory.
You added nothing to the conversation but instead tried to be "clever" by doing the same tired old "angsty Linux vs. Windows shtick" that's been around for as long as GNU/Linux was a thing.
Other people at least offered an explanation or suggestion.
No, he's 100% correct
100% correct about what? That people trying to offer different bits of advice/explanations are driving people away? Even if some of the advice is not the best/contradict one another, it's still support being given to another user.
Comments like these don't say or do much of anything. They just finger wag and scold people for not being the "100% best Linux representative" they can be. Believe it or not, people who are in Linux communities aren't a monolith of perfect technological wisdom and understanding.
My problem isn't even with the basis behind the comment which I actually somewhat agree with. It's just framed in a cowardly way that obnoxiously blames community members for driving people away.
So yes comments like these are useless and the people who make them are lazy.
Clearly, for you, it's a bitter pill. I get it.