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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):
- tabs vs spaces (spaces)
- vim vs emacs (vim)
- free software vs open source (free software)
- Chrome vs Firefox, and other browsers
- Java vs C++, and other programming languages (C)
- curly brackets on separate lines or not, and other style choices
- KDE vs GNOME (neither, both are bloat)
- pronunciation of gif as "gif" vs "jif"
- Windows vs Mac (neither, this is a normie holy war)
- GNU/Linux vs Linux
- copyleft vs permissive (permissive, public domain)
- AMD vs Intel
- AMD vs NVidia
- "Linux" distros
- window managers
- Metric vs Imperial units (metric)
- Star Trek vs Star Wars, and other franchise wars
- Pepsi vs Cola, and other brand wars
- Quake 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 doubt in the fact that one can easily like both and/or not be such a diehard fan of or the other. A subject of holy war probably has to be something that doesn't allow too much of this.