Systemd is pretty much the opposite of the Linux philosophy

Yes it is (and that really doesn't thrill me), but someone had to do something about SysVinit.

Devuan Linux is Debian without the systemd

What does it use for the init system? I would love a distribution that doesn't use systemd, but if it's SysVinit, I'm not interested. That's amateur hour.

When I first started using Unix, back in the 80s, I spent months going through the manuals, trying to figure out how the startup process handled dependencies. I mean... a multitasking system like Unix must have a parallel startup process, right? Right? I was pretty disappointed when I found out how it really worked. Don't get me wrong: I love Linux (and Unix). They're both light years ahead of anything Microsoft has ever written, but neither is perfect.

It will make software even shittier.

Yup. One of my coworkers recently spent several hours working with an AI to write a 50-line (Python) program that I duplicated in 10 minutes with a single shell pipeline (with three commands).

If only. Recently, I tried getting the original After Dark working on my Linux machine, and using DosBox, it works pretty well, but only when I'm logged in and active; I can't get it working on the lock screen. I've googled how to fix it, but I have yet to find a page that has a good solution.

I think it would be pretty hilarious to get Totally Twisted working on my machine at work.

What happens when PC manufacturers lock Linux out and only support Windows Boot for security?

You know how some Linux fans say, "we should try to make Linux more popular", and other Linux fans say, "we don't care how popular Linux is, it does what I want?" The people saying they don't care need to STFU. Why do they think hardware manufacturers haven't locked down their hardware already?

When a enough people call up the company and ask, "does your hardware have Linux drivers", they're going to write Linux drivers, but there's definitely a critical mass, and not caring what anyone else thinks makes it harder to reach that critical mass.

Chat AI can't balance brackets either.

Funny you should say that. Earlier today, a coworker asked ChatGPT to generate a line of 1040 "o"s. No matter how we specified the input, we could not get 1040. (If I remember correctly, the first attempt gave us 570.)

Exactly.. Nothing

You have an interesting definition of "nothing". I mean, the last administration just moved us significantly closer to the end of American democracy than we've ever been, and people still aren't sure we'll be able to fix it.

I'm pretty sure Unreal is a Loki-ported game.That said, I vaguely remember having to use the installer to get the graphics working; I couldn't just copy my files over from another computer, like you can with the (command line) server. That's exactly the behavior I'd expect, given Linus' obsession with not changing user space.

My kids would say, "sounds like a skill issue."

People just have to take a chance and vote them both out

A lot of people tried that in 2016, and look what happened.

Maybe this is a little off-topic, but since you mentioned it, where did you get the idea that Linux has a problem with backward compatibility? At work, they recently refused to allow me to install RHEL 9 on one of our servers, because the application we're using was compiled on RHEL 7. I didn't believe it would be a problem, so I found the oldest program I could - Unreal Gold, from the original CD. It worked fine. (They still didn't allow me to use RHEL 9.) I'm not sure what more you want.

You're assuming people can find where to change the default.

While that may be true, you're not seriously trying to tell me you think it's not orders of magnitude more difficult to change from Windows to another OS, are you? More importantly, unlike Google, Microsoft went out of their way to make it more difficult for competitors, yet they barely got a slap on the wrist. Compared to them, Google's transgressions barely register on the anti-trust scale.

Personally, I think the only way this is going to get resolved permanently is to limit the size of companies; if you're larger than a certain size, you're required to split up.

And JJ lifted the young Spock scene from TaS episode 2 wholesale and used it in his movie.

As far as I know, that's Star Trek canon. Why wouldn't he? IMO, that's one of the few good things he did with his version of Trek.

With anything resembling plot either reduced to 30 seconds of attention span at a time, or just accidental leftover elements from the stories he lifted that managed to make it through the blender.

There I'll agree with you.

Maybe CS theory has changed recently, but almost all the programmers I know will tell you, "Your application should be in your code, not in your database."

To quote an 80s band: "Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want."

I can't believe no one mentioned he's also the voice of Paarthurnax, from Skyrim. It's hard to believe the same guy does both voices.