<div dir="auto">Replying to Steve.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't hate Linux. It's a good OS in some distros. It was my first OS other than DOS and Windows. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I just hate the direction it is going in. I feel like corporate backers are engineering it for the hyper scalers and no one else.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I feel like the Linux space is constantly doing new stuff for the sake of doing new stuff.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ifconfig -> iwconfig -> ip a ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I lament the days of Linux old.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Linux serves many good purposes today still it is just FAR removed from a real Unix.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One can hate systemd and still like the Linux kernel and some of the GNU tools.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 1:16 PM Andre Buskvekster <<a href="mailto:andre@buskvekster.mooo.com">andre@buskvekster.mooo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nick Holland writes:<br>
> This is a general Open Source problem -- it's far more fun to add<br>
> a whole new feature than to make existing features suck less<br>
> (or even work), and REMOVING a bad idea is entirely forbidden,<br>
> it might offend someone!<br>
<br>
Steve Litt writes:<br>
> The preceding is quoted for truth. It's EXACTLY right.<br>
<br>
I don't think it is an open source problem; I think it applies<br>
to all remunerative work, and possibly even beyond work.<br>
<br>
Edsger Dijkstra said:<br>
> Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it<br>
> and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse:<br>
> complexity sells better. <br>
<br>
Or it is an open source problem in the sense that open source<br>
is the apolitical, business-appropriate disruption of free software<br>
communities.<br>
<br>
Edsger Dijkstra also said:<br>
> We should never forget the crucial distinction<br>
> between the salesman and the scientist.<br>
> It is the salesman's duty to please his customers or,<br>
> if that is too difficult, to fool them.<br>
<br>
I believe that we are able to make nice things precisely because<br>
we accept that people won't buy them.<br>
<br>
With distinguished salutations,<br>
Andre<br>
<br>
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