less_retarded_wiki/holy_war.md

# Holy War

Holy war is a perpetual passionate argument over usually two possible choices. This separates people into almost religious teams. In holy wars people tend to defend whichever side they stand on to the death and can get emotional when discussing the topic. Some examples of holy wars are (in brackets indicated the side taken by [LRS](lrs.md)):

- **[tabs](tab.md) vs spaces** (spaces)
- **[vim](vim.md) vs [emacs](emacs.md)** (vim)
- **[free software](free_software.md) vs [open source](open_source.md)** (free software)
- **[Chrome](chrome.md) vs [Firefox](firefox.md)**, and other browsers
- **[Java](java.md) vs [C++](cpp.md)**, and other [programming languages](programming_language.md) ([C](c.md))
- **[curly brackets on separate lines or not](programming_style.md)**, and other [style](programming_style.md) choices
- **[KDE](kde.md) vs [GNOME](gnome.md)** (neither, both are [bloat](bloat.md))
- **pronunciation of [gif](gif.md) as "gif" vs "jif"**
- **[Windows](windows.md) vs [Mac](mac.md)** (neither, this is a normie holy war)
- **[GNU](gnu.md)/Linux vs [Linux](linux.md)**
- **[copyleft](copyleft.md) vs [permissive](permissive.md)** (permissive, [public domain](public_domain.md))
- **[AMD](amd.md) vs [Intel](intel.md)**
- **[AMD](amd.md) vs [NVidia](nvidia.md)**
- **"Linux" [distros](distro.md)**
- **[window managers](wm.md)**
- **[Metric](metric_system.md) vs [Imperial](imperial_units.md) units** (metric)
- **Star Trek vs Star Wars**, and other franchise wars
- **Pepsi vs Coca Cola**, and other brand wars
- **[Quake](quake.md) vs Unreal Tournament**, and similar gaming shit

Things like cats vs dogs or sci-fi vs fantasy may or may not be a holy war, there is a bit of a doubt in the fact that one can easily like both and/or not be such a diehard fan of one or the other. A subject of holy war probably has to be something that doesn't allow too much of this.