+1 insightful because I already commented on this thread, but here's a freebie for you.

That's because "IT" there is incompetent.
Setting printers up where I work, under Windows, is a breeze. You go to a web page, click on your location in the world, drill down to your country, city, building, click on the printer you which to have, click install, watch it install, print away. Point'n'grunt.

After 10 years of using it? I guess it's a pretty lentghy time to get accustomed to it.

I didn't say it was an EXACT MATCH, douchebag.

In my language, "Mui" = "Blowjobs".
Ahem...

Adblock IS essential to me and I don't care if it's integral to the browser or comes in as a 3rd party extension. All I care is whether browser X can block ads, one way or another.
Chrome has this nice feature which installs all plugins automatically after you log in to your Google account.

With that being said, I use IE at work but strictly for internal company web apps.

The examples suck, indeed, but that doesn't mean engineers don't make business decisions.
I am a tech. Not an engineer by definition but doing engineer stuff. And I am invited to a lot of business meetings because there's nobody else who wants or is smart enough to attend them in my group. At first, I was appalled by the horrendous business decisions business people made and tried to speak up, nobody was willing to listen to me. I mean they did keep quiet while I was talking and then ignored what I said.
So I decided to make friends with a guy who could throw his weight around and was listened to. During the meetings I took notes, put my idea in a nice e-mail and sent it to him so that he could send it further as being his. Guess what happened. Suffice to say the guy got promoted twice and everyone looks up to him to untangle whatever issue is at hand. He simply says "I'll have to analyze and get back to you" and awaits my e-mail.

Why do I still do this? For the company, I guess. For the bettering of things.

It's not about understanding the tech dude, it's about preconception about who or rather what the tech dude is. "Oh he's a tech dude, he doesn't know any better".
Rather sad but such is the way.

So... who gives a shit?

Dude you said it yourself:

It does NOT depend on the point of view. It depends on how the point of view is conveyed, true, but NO point of view warrants extreme behavior, period.
I thought both of us are using English here.

Your examples above are not opinions, they're actions (the former) or enforcements of beliefs (the latter).

opinion
pinyn
noun
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

If I come to you and say "You're my slave" you would (hopefully) not shoot me but laugh and say "no, I'm not". If I then pull out some cuffs and try to tie you up, then yeah, you can answer by blowing my head off with a big fucking gun.

If I come and say "you're an infidel" and our religions are different, I am merely stating a fact (which is actually true), it doesn't warrant a bullet to the head. If I then violently force you to convert under death threat, you're entitled to answer in the same manner, or worse.

To reiterate: no point of view warrants use of lethal force to convey it.

The latter is never appropriate.

Hiding is one thing, regulating extremes is another.
There are many ways of expressing a point of view, and I personally value civil methods of doing so.
One could express disagreement by saying "No" or by shooting someone else in the face with a shotgun.

One would have to catch them first. If you read the actual article, you would have realized that chances to do so are slim.

Good God, man, I just told you why it's NOT easier to use and you keep going in circles.
I rest my case.

You're contradicting yourself.
If Linux-based OS is for "31337" only, how would Windows fade away? What are 97% of people using computers going to switch to? MacBooks? Something else that hasn't been invented yet?
Please, enlighten me.