well written and presented.
still completely amazed that this linux software museum piece level technology is still written about 30 years later let alone still a cool thing. Trapped in the 1980’s thinking (1991 officially from Bell Labs roots), it fetishizes complexity, brings pain from infinite directions, is poorly (POORLY) documented, and has endless opportunities to break or be customized intentionally or unintentionally.
but its Free (tm) and has a vibrant set of communities and is used by all of the Cloud Tech Lords at their roots.
It feels more like government handout cheese that everyone says they like but never tased anything better, so no one tries to make anything better.
pardon, timeline was off in above rant. 70’s technology at Bell Labs from Unix, parodying Multics from Bell and Howell, 1991 was Linus T’s own doing. Also Windows and Macs have been disasters at times as well.