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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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.
Snapshots:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html:
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down:
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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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