I think there's an important difference between Linus and some debian-users posters. Linus directs most of his rants towards developers who don't care about users. "Don't break user space" rule is all about users. Compare with some debian-users participants.
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by raverbashing on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:30AM
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Exactly this
In the Linux world, it seems to me that Linus has the users at heart, which unfortunately cannot be said of several others
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by Jakuv2000 on Sunday December 21, 2014 @11:39AM
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Don't forget Lennart.
Just watch this video of him disrupting a talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0
The shenanigans start around 12 minutes in, and continue throughout.
The last few minutes are particularly weird. He even gets up on stage at around 53:40.
It's unbelievable!
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by the_why_of_y on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:57PM
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Yes it is quite unbelievable how much bullshit and mis-information the presenter is talking, luckily somebody who actually knows the stuff was in the audience to point out some of the actual requirements of modern desktops.
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by digi_owl on Sunday December 21, 2014 @02:47PM
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That "modern desktop" is why many stopped using Windows in the first place.
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by retrogradeorbit on Sunday December 21, 2014 @09:49PM
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Whose requirements? Gnomes.
Re:Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?
by digi_owl on Sunday December 21, 2014 @03:10PM
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Yeah, i don't get the netizens sometimes. Torvalds venting on the LKML is bad, But this heckling is acceptable?
From an outsiders point of view, linux projects are filled with people like this. Linus, Ulrich Depper, etc. Really turns me off from ever contributing when these dudes (or girls I dunno) act like this.