It really bugs me that one of the first things he brings up is “zomg, you don’t have to compile your own kernel!”. I’ve been dailying Linux for a decade and I used it intermittently for probably a decade prior. I’ve had to compile my own kernel exactly zero times. I’ve chosen to once or twice, and that was 15+ years ago.
Has Linus installed Linux at all in the past ten years? It’s plug in a USB stick and go. The most technical thing is drive partitioning (which admittedly is pretty technical in the grand scale of $UtterNoob–>$UnixGuru), but that’s also not required. There’s no chasing down drivers or repos or anything. It’s easier than a Windows install, if for no other reason than not having to punch in a 25-digit product key.
Sure you can build Linux from various levels of scratch, but that’s an option, and you’d think he’d celebrate it as such.
It really bugs me that one of the first things he brings up is “zomg, you don’t have to compile your own kernel!”. I’ve been dailying Linux for a decade and I used it intermittently for probably a decade prior. I’ve had to compile my own kernel exactly zero times. I’ve chosen to once or twice, and that was 15+ years ago.
Has Linus installed Linux at all in the past ten years? It’s plug in a USB stick and go. The most technical thing is drive partitioning (which admittedly is pretty technical in the grand scale of $UtterNoob–>$UnixGuru), but that’s also not required. There’s no chasing down drivers or repos or anything. It’s easier than a Windows install, if for no other reason than not having to punch in a 25-digit product key.
Sure you can build Linux from various levels of scratch, but that’s an option, and you’d think he’d celebrate it as such.
Harrumph.