@torvalds I have to ask again, because Open and Free Software these days like to talk and enforce so much "Codes of Conduct".

What about zionists?
Why zionist settlers, benefiting from an open and declared genocide by their so called government and leaders (and populace in general), aren't still banned from contributing to the Kernel and elsewhere?

@kde @ubuntu @gnome @fedora
@SUSE

@PCsfueralle tue ich...

Ich deploye ausschließlich #Linus und verweigere den Support für #Windows abseits von der Migration weg zu #Ubuntu LTS oder #macOS...

@RL_Dane

So where on the chart would you put #Linus?

“Real men don’t use #backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies.”

https://devrant.com/rants/1413485/linus-torvalds-real-men-don-t-use-backups-they-post-their-stuff-on-a-public-ftp

@amin @joel @sotolf

@Naich @ardi60 Totally agree.

I mean, Windows is just such a weird proprietary distro.

It doesn't use the latest Linux kernel, or even a mainstream POSIX-compliant alternative like BSD. Instead, you have a strange CP/M-like monolithic kernel — I think they used to call it DOS — that's been extended to behave more like VAX and MP/M.

It also doesn't use either X11 or Wayland as a display manager. Instead, you have an incredibly unintuitive overblown WINE-like subsystem handling the display.

Because it doesn't natively use Wayland or X11, you are limited in the desktop environments that you can use. There's really limited support for KDE, despite the best efforts of volunteers.

Instead, there's a buggy and error-prone proprietary window manager that ships with it by default. A bit like how Canonical tried to make Unity the default desktop for Ubuntu.

And confusingly, they've named that window manager Windows as well!

That window manager lacks many of the features an everyday Gnome or KDE user would expect out of the box.

It also doesn't ship with a standard package manager, and most of the packages ship as x86 binaries, so installing software works differently to how an everyday Linux user would expect.

There's also only one company maintaining all of these projects. It insists on closed source, and it has a long history of abandoning its projects.

And sure, if you're a nerd who's into alternative operating systems, toying with Windows can be fun.

But if your grandpa is used to Linux, frankly he'll be utterly bamboozled by the Windows experience.

I'm sorry to be glib, because Windows does have some nice ideas.

But.

Windows on the desktop just isn't ready for your average, everyday Linux user.