• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    Well it is more like your ceiling is leaking from the apartment above and your landlord ain’t doing shit. Installing Linux would be like moving out to another apartment or home. Even if it doesn’t fix the leak the problem is now gone for you.

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      Ok, but what if the problem was that you didn’t like the door color and you weren’t allowed to paint it because of your landlord.

      Are you still going to move your entire life to a different location?

      Most problems on the Microsoft forums aren’t going to explode their computers.

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        It has to be something that is nearly fully outside your control but is affecting you, there are probably milder problems as examples but I think this apt.

        In the metaphor, half of the answers are asking you to do a useless workaround, blame you and/or are irrelevant to solving the problem. Hence the leak, where the answers are telling you to try running your taps for 10 minutes, put a bucket under the leak, telling you that there is no leak and that’s actually a water fountain, etc.