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How Open Source Advocates Celebrated The 26th Anniversary of Linux (linux.com)
To celebrate Linux's 26th anniversary, the Linux Foundation tweeted a picture of Tux on a birthday cake, and linked to an essay on OpenSource.com by FreeDOS founder Jim Hall:
My first Linux distribution was Softlanding Linux System (SLS) 1.03, with Linux kernel 0.99 alpha patch level 11. That required a whopping 2MB of RAM, or 4MB if you wanted to compile programs, and 8MB to run X windows... To celebrate, I reinstalled SLS 1.05 to remind myself what the Linux 1.0 kernel was like and to recognize how far Linux has come since the 1990s.
"Getting X windows to perform was not exactly easy..." Hall writes, adding "the concept of a desktop didn't exist yet." Meanwhile Phoronix celebrated by republishing that fateful email Linus Torvalds sent on August 25, 1991. And Fossbytes shared the most recent statistics about modern-day Linux's 20 million lines of code from the Linux Foundation: During the period between the 3.19 and 4.7 releases, the kernel community was merging changes at an average rate of 7.8 patches per hour; that is a slight increase from the 7.71 patches per hour seen in the previous version of this report, and a continuation of the longterm trend toward higher patch volumes.
"Getting X windows to perform was not exactly easy..." Hall writes, adding "the concept of a desktop didn't exist yet." Meanwhile Phoronix celebrated by republishing that fateful email Linus Torvalds sent on August 25, 1991. And Fossbytes shared the most recent statistics about modern-day Linux's 20 million lines of code from the Linux Foundation: During the period between the 3.19 and 4.7 releases, the kernel community was merging changes at an average rate of 7.8 patches per hour; that is a slight increase from the 7.71 patches per hour seen in the previous version of this report, and a continuation of the longterm trend toward higher patch volumes.
I'm on Windows 10 right now (actually, as I type this) and I don't have any of the problems you're having. It boots flawlessly every time, updates itself regularly with security patches, and the user interface is industry standard and eminently usable. It never crashes, and if a rogue program does it is isolated and easily dispatched. I can sit down at any workstation either at my place of employment or a friend's house and get right to work - no acclimatization needed. And I know that any software I want or need will run natively on my OS - no tricks, hoops, or work-arounds. I couldn't be more pleased.
This highlights not only what's wrong with the Linux community, but with humanity as a whole.
What you've just witnessed was a typical example of tribalism, the same kind of tribalism that prompted riots and bloodshed in India when some guru was found guilty of double rape.
Tribalism is not based on reason or reality, just on the need to belong to a group at all cost, and to defend that group against all foe, against reality itself sometimes.
Because contrary to what many believe, human intelligence has not evolved to grant humans a better understanding of reality, of the world around them, It has evolved to better create and adhere to a belief system, to better defend and expand this system and, ultimately, to have it supplant and eradicate all other conflicting belief systems.
This is what natural selection produced. Because, for humans, you have a greater chance of survival if you belong to a group, even with twisted screwed up views of the world, than if you're alone, no matter how rational and accurate your perception of reality is.
And this post will probably quicly get dowmodded to hell by the same people that downmodded the OP, for the reasons stated above.