I got started on the punch cards in 1970 and went with an Atari about
the time you were using Commodore. Later with CP/M and DOS, later
adding DesqView to DOS, took awhile to warm to Windows as I still
liked the control you had at DOS command line, and didn't have with
"Windows for Dummies". Linux carries over the same philosophy of
allowing a dedicated user to not have to suffer through a dumbed-down
interface. For instance, the MS defaults of hiding .exe will never
stay on any computer I touch.

Your last sentence shows the peril of Over-Moderation or the threat of
Censorship. There is no need for posters to feel on edge that anything
they say will be banned.