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      don’t feed the troll, that comment makes it clear they have zero understanding of what Linux is if they generalize it like it is one thing.

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        It is one thing. FreeBSD and NetBSD are not one thing. Linux is one thing.

        And I meant Linux, not distributions and userlands, so you’re the troll here.

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            Yes, and the same can be said about Windows NT, yet it’s called one thing. Honestly I think I’m getting tired of American intelligence.

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              Linux is only “one thing” if you’re a kernel/driver developer. And even then, Linux via Android (linux fork) is completely different from the normal one.

              As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.

              Windows is one thing to support. Linux has countless configurations.

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                As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.

                I would expect Windows RT and Windows CE to somewhat differ too. Despite being NT.

                Why would an application developer care about the init system? Start scripts and units for demonized stuff can be honestly made by users and maintainers, if that’s expected to be packaged. If it’s not, it’s half an hour of googling to make functional enough ones for most purposes.

                DBus is such a common thing that there are applications not working without it running, and nobody really complains. You can assume it is, or you can ignore its existence. That’s changed by installing\uninstalling DBus. Not a difference between two operating systems, LOL.

                glibc or musl - yeah. Different enough. Still the OS is the same, can use a musl chroot from a glibc system. Can use as many chroots as you want.

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          So I’m curious. If you mean the Linux kernel, when and how do you think it went off down the wrong path?

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            Around year 1999. No particular reason, just it seems to have gained recognition and approval among the big fish then.

            If by “when” you mean analytically, then when it stopped being “a hobby project started by a Finnish student with participation of volunteers from all around the world” and became one of the houses of power.

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      It’s an enormous centralized project upon which much of the world depends.

      And if you think you can find an intentionally put backdoor in a buttfuckazillion lines of code without even looking, purely by intuition or trusting some random security specialists from the news, then I think you’ve lost the way.

      It’s too complex and runs on too complex hardware. Honestly if we are going to look at any FOSS project with such hope, it should become a democracy first. A friendly reminder - Linux is a benevolent dictatorship, funded by corporations.

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          People were doing complex surgeries, making fighter jets, submarines and spaceships without what you seem to call a computer.

          Also I can’t return to being an American because I’ve never been one.

          And C64 is a computer, Radio-86RK is a computer, Amiga 500 is a very good computer.

          Supersonic passenger planes have been built, before personal computers becoming anything common, but aren’t operated today.

          And you most likely don’t live in a more than 60 story building, despite such being built.

          And deliberately reducing your comfort is sometimes valuable, not everything should be entertainment.