Calling someone a fascist for that is obviously a bit OTT but you’ve ignored the “do weird shit” part of the response so it wasn’t literally what you said. Taking the full response into account you can easily interpret it as “I don’t bother with mental maths but use a calculator instead, anyone who isn’t like me is weird as shit”

That is a bit thought police-y

You think linux doesn’t have a firewall? I’m fairly certain every distribution has one installed and enabled by default.

The real reason linux worked so well in this situation was the local admin rights that came from being a rogue, unmanaged device on the network. I’m sure they could have made windows work if all the group policies weren’t being enforced.

Even if you wrote the code yourself you can come back to it a while later and have a wtf moment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯