That’s an interesting question. It’s pretty nuanced. I don’t know of any laws that would stop Microsoft from going “oops, we had a bug in our software, sorry about that”. Same for the linux distros. Unless you’re a corporate customer, then that would be included as part of some contract. So at the end of the day you trust Microsoft’s reputation. You’d trust your distro of choice as well. So as a thought experiment I would suggest that the most secure operating system provider is the one that ships a very similar version of its OS to both end-users and enterprise customers. Some Linux distributions fall into that category, some definitely not.

Also, keep in mind that some distros are run mostly by individual contributors not employed by any knowingly reputable company, so I’d stay away from those by default.

I sense this^ reply is crap.

And Xfce4 doing the light heavy lifting as usual.

I try to remove the extra comma.

Immutable vs Mutable

weird        normal

Yep, you’re blind to how much worse VR is than anything else, even mobile gaming. But alright, keep pushing new people into this trap, I don’t have any stakes in this.

It’s great that you like VR and want other people to try it. But when someone asks for a recommendation, you can’t just attempt to drag them into your own world like that, c’mon. VR is expensive, cumbersome, needs extra space in the house, has very few games (actual games) worth playing, etc. It’s an amazing immersive technology, yes. But a 30yo that never touched a game before? There’s very little in terms of gaming on any VR platform for them to experience, instead there’s a lot of VRing, which I think misses the point of this thread.

Right, then play the one or two games on it that don’t suck and never touch the thing again.

It’s always been this way. Except that it was kernel developers arguing with kernel developers over C code. Now it’s relative newcomers arguing with kernel developers over Rust code that the kernel devs don’t necessarily care about. Of course it’s going to be a mess.

A fork is of course possible, but operating systems are huge and very complex, you really don’t want to alienate these folks that have been doing exclusively this for 30 years. It would be hard to keep the OS commercially viable with a smaller group and having to do both the day to day maintenance, plus the rewrite. It’s already difficult as it is currently.

Rust will be a huge success in time, long after the current names have lost their impetus. This is not a “grind for 4 years and it’s done” project.

I just block everything that has the words “news” or “meme” in them. That already avoids you 90% of bad news and disgrace.

People who use spaces are not taping space space space space space space space space. Their tapping the tab key all the same.

Wow, super newsworthy. Even included some bs about “colorful language”. Can’t let a thing like that go by without trying to entice some internet drama.

Option 3, final answer.

No one cares. Adoption of operating systems in the real world is not done based on popularity charts. Those only serve for memes and flamewars.

I’m sorry, but all of this was caused by your defensive and mildly aggressive response when he implied your patches were broken.

That whole PR was already confusing with all the rework and mentions of other people’s code and the inclusion of good code along with bad code.

When it was suggested that the foruns would be a good place I read it more like a “stop spamming us with experimental code”. Your suggestion to remove the experimental tag led them to think you were trying to shut them down and push stuff anyway.

This has all been a major misunderstanding. The fact that you took that so poorly (IMO, since you’re even posting about it here), means that maybe you should try to take a step back when this sort of thing happens, try to look at things from their perspective, and generally don’t assume ill intent.

Open source is hard because it is a communication heavy discipline and not everyone is used to that.