Tuomo Valkonen#Linux is a dumpster fire — somebody call the fire department.
And yet, despite everything, moving to #OpenSource is no longer optional.
https://tuomov.medium.com/linux-is-a-dumpster-fire-7e67d1f85a19
Zeno@ezeno I did not mention a single explicitly identifiable bug. The problem, besides distributions, is the dungheap architecture, which makes fixing and debugging problems—like the two mentioned—yourself very difficult.
It is, for example, completely unclear where you configure Bluetooth to not advertise every possible imaginable service. There are so many moving parts, and I had to try at least 10 ChatGPT-invented options to try to disable the advertising. …
@ezeno … I don’t even know what worked in the end. Nothing was clearly documented, the responsibilities of different components were completely unclear. What service it really is and how it is abbreviated was completely unclear. And the average-Joe-facing Gnome vomit does not expose any such configurability.
The lid closing I did not even try to fix. It’s a well-known roulette. One that many say should work on a Thinkpad, but not much else. It didn’t. Not on this Thinkpad.
@ezeno And the main argument is not about specific bugs, but whether it is fixable yourself. Linux today is not. It lost the beauty of unix (everything is a file), and replaced it with a mess of interfaces and buses, each using each other in a random graph pattern, undocumented. I’m sure commercial operating systems are just as ugly, but Linux is even further away from “just working”. You need to fiddle and to do so, anyone with other things to do in their life, requires SIMPLICITY.
@ezeno And, most importantly, this is not an argument against using #Linux. It’s a plea for simplifying the mess that #gnomification created, telling the gatekeepers to jump in the lake and drown themselves, and, finally, enabling open source software to take over the world.
Linux and #OpenSource people who do not see that this is necessary, and fight it, are harming the movement. They are pushing everyone to Apple, Google, and Microsoft and their gated gardens and spyware.
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