kieranph

In my opinion, this is not an issue of people who are sensitive to the f-bomb, it's an issue of professionalism in a professional application. After all, people who would be sensitive to the f-bomb to the point where they would actually be offended by it wouldn't exactly be participating in any community populated by people over the age of 7, right? The issue here is that the author of the sources was obviously not being professional, and the existence of these statements were not offensive, but off-putting, especially when you consider that OpenJDK was made by a legitimate corporation that isn't exactly known for joking around.

I was so close (about a nanometer!) to adopting FreeBSD as my desktop OS due to it's plethora of software, amazing package management, great usage of RAM, and roots in true Unix, but one sad day, I installed WINE. It was working with all the applications I expected it to, except for one... Steam. The WINE version was too old. I tried and tried again, even compiling it straight from the staging git branch, but it didn't compile. Alas, FreeBSD is my server OS. It keeps my at least a bit sane knowing I have FreeBSD somewhere in my home.

While Linux shouldn't be purposely user-hostile if it wants to be used in a desktop computer environment, Linux has a different purpose than emulating Windows. That's why Linux can't really be compared to something like ReactOS. It's purpose (in my opinion) is libre software and configurability options (compared to operating systems such as Windows). To change both of those in the name of proprietary software and/or forced ease of use/non-configurability would alienate the original purpose and fracture the community. That's why systemd/Poetteringware is so controversial (and GRUB2 on a much smaller scale), and the near-universal hatred of systemd among UNIX veterans for its mostly-successful monopolism over init systems (and everything else nobody on a lower-end system would ever run at once) only proves my point. While Linux's reputation as a desktop Unix-like does warrant the need for ease-of-use to truly be considered as that, there is a reason that people use Linux and Windows in different situations and environments.

I mean, Libreboot hasn't been updated since 2016, so it might as well be...