[blaisio]

So one of Linus' main points in this series of posts is that failing loudly is actually not always better than failing silently or quietly, and it's really annoying when people come in making that assumption without thinking. This is also something that he is constantly repeating and ranting about, and it's arguably one of the reasons why Linux is so successful.

Think about a smartphone - do most users want it to crash and reboot, even if some error (which could end up being a security issue) occurred? The answer is no, absolutely not. The crashing and rebooting itself isn't really that helpful. Reporting the bug to the Linux developers _would_ be helpful.

Some people do want the frequent crashing behavior and that's okay, but it's not okay to make that decision for everyone.

Also, users might expect minor breakage if someone somewhere makes a mistake, but that doesn't mean it's okay. That's like saying if someone always washes their hands before eating, it's okay if they get sick, because they were expecting that they might get sick.

[pjmlp]

Interesting that you mention smartphones, because that is exactly what Google has made to their Linux fork.

Every Android app that misbehaves, just gets killed without warning.

The scenarios where this might happen, have been increasing since Android 7.