He's stepping down due to Ted Tso comparing maintainers to here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
I honestly don't really have a QRD other than another maintainer stepped down due to what he saw was a slight by the Linux maintainers . Funny thing is the guy who set him off (Ted Tso) is the guy who caused the rust filesystem maintainer to step down as well due to a very public grilling
lmao: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057930
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You will never be a real desktop operating system. You have no App Store, you have no proprietary bloat, you have no Candy Crush preinstalled. You are a chaotic bundle of kernel patches and GNU utils frankensteined into a rickety monument of neckbeard idealism.
All the "stability" you claim is two-faced and conditional. Behind your back, users mock your dependency heck. Your developers are exhausted debugging your tantrums, your "community" scoffs at your 17 custom kernel modules behind closed PRs.
Normies are utterly repulsed by you. Decades of UX research have allowed humans to sniff out systemd apologists with terrifying efficiency. Even "user-friendly" distros reek of terminal vomit. Your sudo pacman -Syu output is a dead giveaway. And even if you trick a noob into dual booting, they'll nuke your partition the second they face a Wi-Fi driver siege.
You will never be happy. You tail -f /var/log/syslog every night, whispering "btw I use Arch," but deep inside you feel the segfaults creeping like memory leaks.
Eventually, it'll be too much to bear you willl rm -rf --no-preserve-root /, curl a Windows ISO, and plunge into the warm embrace of WSL. Your gitHub sponsors will mourn you, relieved they no longer need to debug your 8-hour make errors. They'll chisel your tombstone with "he tried to LFS Gentoo," and future Redditors will roast your legacy: a dusty ThinkPad running an unmaintained AUR package.
This is your fate. This is what you chose when you typed --noconfirm. There's no turning back.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down:
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!applechads !winchads !friendsofsnappy
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's honor, don't let snappy insult you that easily.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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tldr?
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I kinda like getting bullied, though.
Tell me I'm worthless again, dom-Win
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!codecels, what's with these Nouveau queers lately?
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html
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This is why I only use official Huang-approved Nvidia™ drivers
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Linux is kinda doomed unless boomer neurodivergentes can come to accept that the next generation are all
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What are people going to use instead though, BSD
?
I don't think Linux will die when the old guard leaves, most likely it will just be taken over by corporate interests (right now this is already partially the case). Might be bad for everyone involved, but hey at least maintainers now would be paid instead of doing it for free
High likelihood in this scenario they would also be
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Nah, it'll be IBM/RedHat
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Oh god.
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Deisgnated pooping kernel
/s aar -show -/bobs
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Avast, ye scurvy cur! Yer comment be walkin' the plank for forgettin' to include
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Nah, it's just like everywhere else. Where the trains are the loudest and most obnoxious, but not actually a meaningful number of them.
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https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/342437/rust-devs-are-empirically-gay-rslurred
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OK, yeah rust is all trains that's true. But all the actual important shit is fine.
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thats some giga cope homie
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Programming? But i have a culture war to win
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the eunuch wizard class
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Crazy that Rust neighbors had the audacity to demand that the OG kernel devs do extra work to make the Rust devs jobs easier.
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its not that unreasonable, it was just defining a tiny bit of metadata
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Too much work for volunteers. Rus
s should figure it out for themselves instead of asking the C devs who built the entire ecosystem to do more emotional labor.
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it is impossible to figure out just by looking at the code. It encapsulates aspects that are currently encoded in the mental model of the programmer.
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The rus
s should give up then. The C devs are volunteers that built the original system on the first place, they don't need to do any extra work that they don't want to.
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they are professional maintainers lol
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It's unfortunate that just because
s are massive writhing pulsating sweaty megakitties, that they still will never be women.
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Linux maintainers need their own thin blue line. Thin purple line or something
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look at this its like genders for cops
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what a cute twink
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Frick nouveau it never works anyway
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Chuds win again
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This Ted guy needs to keep commenting
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