Lol surely Linux can't have a CoC or Linus would be out in seconds? I wonder if he gets an explicit exemption.

CAD, CAM, EDA, audio/video production (NLVEs, DAWs, synthesisers etc.).

There are open source options sometimes, but they are all faaar behind the commercial options. No fiscally sane business or government department would use them (unless they only need a small job, or are quite masochistic).

Windows will actually stop you from deleting Program Files.

Nobody is asking for idiot-proof, just mistake-resistant. It's ok, most people don't understand this point.

they would have had to intentionally push past warnings to force the uninstall

Go and learn some basics about UX. Two different very smart people made this mistake.

IIRC there are no warnings. It will just list gnome in the list of packages to uninstall that you often get when uninstalling things, and can easily ignore.

Again to reinforce the point because many people do not understand it. Just because it was possible to avoid the issue if you were careful does not mean that it is not an issue. People make mistakes. Seatbelts exist.

Because my current company is too cheap to buy Macs, and the project I work on is full of Docker and bash scripts and obscure EDA tools. Would be a nightmare on Windows. WSL is a possibility I suppose.

Do you have 10k Linux laptops though? The places where I worked saw issues like this for a significant fraction of the dozens of Linux laptops (most people used Macs). There's no way you could scale that issue rate to 10k machines.

So why does it work for other people with the same laptop and OS?

you are telling me they can’t do better than hitting subscribe on Office365?

Yes I am absolutely telling you that.

I don't think that's the reason. It works for other people.

Not really. It will predict more vulgar output but that is fixed by fine tuning. It's not going to "poison" it in any meaningful sense.

Wow the level of drama and anger here is crazy. I assume it was cathartic to write at least!