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Re:Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the ke... by acoard on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:32AM (#29553480)
I'm a bit confused behind the substance of your argument. I use RHEL at work a lot which is admittedly pretty corporately, but use Debian at home just fine. But as for windows-y? How so? And regarding backwards compatibility, isn't that how Linux has always been? Windows has always been the king of backwards compatibility, whereas it wasn't one of Linux's strengths.

As Miguel de Icaza said in 2012:

> Backwards compatibility is not a sexy problem. It is not even remotely an interesting problem to solve. Nobody wants to do that work, everyone wants to innovate, and be responsible for the next big feature in Linux.

> So Linux was left with idealists that wanted to design the best possible system without having to worry about boring details like support and backwards compatibility.

> Meanwhile, you can still run the 2001 Photoshop that came when XP was launched on Windows 8. And you can still run your old OSX apps on Mountain Lion…”

src: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

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Re:Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the ke... by effie on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:43PM (#29560990)
Centos cancelled for the benefit of Redhat and detriment of many of its users. Kernel changes that exclude users of 10year+ older hardware. Corporate-backed campaign to discredit ethos leaders and defenders of user rights and veteran contributors - Redhat turning back on FSF and Richard Stallman, OSI banning Eric Raymond. Ubuntu and Redhat losing interest in needs of desktop and small business users, putting most efforts into features for big cloud operations. User group events degraded / cancelled.

Yeah Debian is still keeping mostly pro-user but they are not the leader in the cutting edge of development. Distributions innovating more do exist, but they are very small part of the Linux world. Most of it is Redhat, Ubuntu and hardware vendors.

Systemd, GNOME, GPU drivers are very windowsey; tightly coupled big software that one is discouraged to study and improve, almost as bad as their closed source counterparts on Windows.

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