operating system racist

Prejudice that one operating system is inferior to another, usually to ones favorite operating system.

Such prejudice can arise when one is accustomed to a particular platform, whether he or she be end-user, or programmer. It can also occur, when there's too much diversity in a particular family of operating system, that one attempts (at no avail) to define the core (one might call soul) of it.

It's purely operating system racist when you chant socket over STREAMS, scream poll over select, advocate Linux over BSD, and trys to trump your Unix over Windows.

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