[Intar]

Very much agree. The distro maze has made Linux a very schizophrenic OS akin to multiple personality disorder, coupled by too much free software riddled with bugs that go unpatched and security vulnerabilities that often go ignored. If you are trying to break into Linux as a user, get ready to get ignored or told, arrogantly, by the community to Read the f’ing manual (which usually doesn’t exist in any meaningful detail because coders wanna code, not write docs), and even if you did that, fix or patch whatever feature into the project yourself. There are exceptions,
of course, but they’re rare. Outside purpose built appliances or devops, Linux just ain’t worth the trouble.

[ShadowAce]

The 90s called.

They miss you.

[Myrddin]

I rented out my CP/M machine to a computer dealer in exchange for a fully commented copy of the UNIX kernel code with annotations from the University of New South Wales in 1980. The first time I got my hands on a real UNIX system was a 3B20 at Pacific Telephone on a network shared with Bjarne Stroustrup in August 1983. The Bell System machines had full source code installed for everything. It was a perfect way to learn by reading all of the source to every command line utility, the kernel and having access to early versions of C++. I never looked back. Since 1983 I've worked as deep as kernel device drivers in HP-UX and as broad as networks of 12000 UNIX machines for the Army Corps of Engineers. Linux is something I can run at my home and build technology that my employer and customers needs. Fedora and Ubuntu are my distros of choice. For embedded systems, I used Debian to leverage the slower pace of patching.

[Openurmind]

“If you are trying to break into Linux as a user, get ready to get ignored or told, arrogantly, by the community to Read the f’ing manual (which usually doesn’t exist in any meaningful detail because coders wanna code, not write docs), and even if you did that, fix or patch whatever feature into the project yourself. There are exceptions,
of course, but they’re rare.”

That is absolute BS, you obviously have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Nine out of ten Linux users will jump in and volunteer to help you solve issues at the drop of a hat. There is not a bigger or better volunteer support group community anywhere else for any other product.