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   faraiwe (faraiwe@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 03:53:21 JST faraiwe

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   Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

   Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

   I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

   I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

   Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

   However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

   Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

   There.

   /rant

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     faraiwe (faraiwe@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 03:53:22 JST faraiwe

     IMO, eventually, all the inconsistencies, compounded bugs, added bloat from copypasta code, and "ai" slop added to non-FOSS OSes and software will reach a critical point, where nothing commercial will work or perform the functions they were designed to do; but it will still be able to get online, mostly because the boxes that make internet actually work all run on Unix/Linux.

     #ai #LLM #garbage #windows #apple #Linux #Unix

     Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: repeated this.