Never said anything bad about the owner nor the moderators, just the trolls .I'm not sure that complaiming about the moderators and forum owners in the forums that they own or moderate would encourage them to feel sympathetic to your plight. Also, if you object to how the forum runs, there's usually an X shaped button at the upper left corner of the web browser that, when clicked, can solve all the problems you run into with other people on the Internet.
As for Play on Linux, it works very nicely and I've not personally run into any problems with recent versions of it and WINE about which you speak.
But not to the extent that the Linux users troll the Windows threads .You mean like this?
http://s9.postimage.org/773clqa4b/search.jpg
String lists seem to work fine (and it wastes less screen real estate). Like Windows 8, it is extensible with a plug-in based architecture. I can use it to search files, I can use it to search and pull up open windows, I can use it to search Wikipedia, I can use it to search through my IM contacts, I can use it to search through my e-mail and so on. I can search everything from a single line or I can assign hotkeys to limit my search to specific plugins (such as find a file or find on wikipedia).
Windows users come into the GNU/Linux threads all the time.