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I am honestly a staunch BSD supporter, but prefer Open over Free. I am not a daily user of them, but I use them, I use openSUSE mostly at the moment. But even though I'm a far far cry from any kind of an engineer or developer, I don't know any programming languages only some commands, I am also not willing to talk with most open source people, because of exactly your experience. I am a get-to-the-point kind of person, with other things too not just computing, so I've noticed over the years you have to be very careful who you ask, because people seem to feel such a strong need to bring their opinions into everything. So although it might sound like I'm arrogant or anti-social, it's because I'm honestly not interested in hearing anybody's opinion when I'm asking a technical question, when it's not a philosophical discussion, since opinions don't help in any way in how to operate a system. If someone asks me anything, I do my best to give them to the info they need to fully answer their question. When I ask a technical question, I would greatly prefer a technical answer, and if the end result of the answer sounds like I'm going to turn my system into a ticking time bomb, that's fine, because I can work with that, but opinions and rants I can't do anything with. So I understand exactly what you're saying, and so I've learned to just learn and research everything on my own with open source stuff, the majority of people don't interest me. I would have to say Theo is one for the few people I've ever had discussions with that gives a fully informative answer. I honestly don't know his opinion on a lot of things, he just answers so straight, so he's one of the few I enjoy talking with whenever I do because he is never irate with his answers, just very practical.