Linux

“I can rely on gifts to the world like Linux, Debian, PostgreSQL, Apache, Nginx, Caddy, and Yggdrasil without any problems for decades.”

“If we can develop projects on the scale of the Linux kernel and multiple programming languages, we can likely develop Gecko in a similar manner.”

“Now, Linux powers every Android phone, most servers, most routers, and is probably more broadly adopted than all other operating systems, combined.”

“Not unlike Linus, who has the habit of going postal when any discussion about any change to the Linux kernel reaches the 'Linus in CAPS' stage”

“producing something immensely valuable with a much clearer impact on economic indicators than your average scientific paper”

“Obscure old printers and scanners, Bluetooth headphones with modern codecs like LDAC and SBC-XQ, RGB gaming mice all "just work" on Linux”

“A monolithic kernel written in C with an extreme focus on performance at the cost of having immense complexity is not reasonably secure.”

“I put in the exact same amount of effort to install a Linux distro on my laptop that I would have to install Windows.”

“I maintain that most of the code is there for hardware support, for security, or to support user-space application models.”

“FreeBSD or Linux in 2002 was already far ahead of a legacy unix in terms of usability and ability to customize things”

“A mature, big and complex project like the Linux kernel is still being (happily) developed using small email-based patches.”

“Linux is worse about it. Right now I've got two Linux machines that can sleep but will become unusable when they wake up.”

“Sure Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, and all the other standard tools in the box are open source and free, but they're also arcane and complex to run”

“The last desktop I bought took under an hour from linux install usb stick boot to steam installing my library of windows games.”

“The precise reason I build my sites on top of Linux and Apache and Postgres is because I can switch hosts at any time.”

“Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports is IMO one of the best consequence ever of AI.”

“I like Linux as a server OS (and would pick it over Windows or MacOS for that any day of the week that ends in y), but as a desktop OS it's just more work than I care to exert”

“Linux _may_ be the best solution overall I am not sure. It is definitely not the best solution from a security perspective.”

“If you want an upstream Linux kernel with folders of markdown prompts and virtualized ChromeOS/Android containers, just use Linux.”

“Linux is also full of cruft, it's good enough but I don't think you should live with the impression that is a benchmark of software quality”

“It is open source. Many companies which contribute to it are American, but nobody from America can tell you what you can or cannot do with it”

“a substantial perf regression in 7.0 that can only be mitigated by a default-off non-trivial functionality also introduced in 7.0”

“I can choose my own desktop, or even forsake the desktop entirely for a simpler window manager, without changing operating systems.”

“in Linux not only the required configuration was more complex, but I tried several programs and all had stutter problems at FullHD resolution”

“I would bet that if you tried again with Linux (or even in WSL2, as long as you stay in the WSL filesystem image), you'd see significantly improved results.”

“FreeBSD and Linux give me more control over my daily experience, but at the cost of way more time debugging and administration.”

“still a nightmare? basic functionality introduced maybe 50 years ago now, and the linux world is still working out the kinks with GUIs”

“The forcing of the various incompatible waylands by the big linux corps has meant the end of support for screen readers.”

“Switch to Linux today. Unless you're working with a shit company, chances are pretty good that all of your software and workflows will work on Linux too”

“This is different from Linux (and Windows, to a lesser degree) where you have a crazy amount of moving parts with drivers/hardware/resources/etc.”

“you can at least just install it in a second partition and use it that way untill you're sure it works for you, zero money required”

“linux is deprecating libc after very short time and the legacy joystick API is not being compiled into modern kernels anymore”

“Make it do the security stuff out-of-the-box, allow the user to change ANYTHING they want, including turning off the security stuff. Linux!”

“What does software look like when it's developed out of passion purely for the improvement to the world? Curl, linux, git.”

“Consider the Linux ecosystem. "Give them everything and expect nothing" works fine despite the great effort which goes in to building and maintaining that system.”

“There's a learning curve, but you can customize everything to be exactly how you want, and there are no black boxes whatsoever.”

“There’s plenty of horrible kernel functions with footguns in Linux, but they won’t be improved due to “never break userspace””

“our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment”

“the success of having a stable app platform can be attributed to Linux, the kernel, solely for having a policy to never break userspace”

“Linus still doesn't tag bug fixes with potential security impacts as such because he is more worried about unpatched consumer garbage”