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Reasons Linux Sucks (hackertalks.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/linuxsucks

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Monolithic Kernel

Why the hell, in the year 2024, are we still pushing monolithic kernels! The people deserve microkernels already

No well defined driver abi

Drivers running kernel space, no standard interface, they're not very portable. It's a mess

Systemd

What happened to kiss? This is like the polar opposite of kiss. It's like making emacs foundational to your entire operating system. It's basically its own operating system. It's troublesome

GNU is not (Lin)Ux

Enough said

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[–] fart_pickle 7 points 1 month ago

Well, I do like the systemd. But I have my own list of things. Recent three updates broke - graphic drivers, sound drivers and fingerprint support. If you don't have much free time, using linux as a daily driver is a huge waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be time for a functional language with proper borrow checking to write the kernel in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Haskell has a borrow checker now?