[izacus]

> One can make all the arguments for it they want but the continued public comtempt means something.

It means that Linux community is full of people that refuse to give up on their gripes even after years. Those also tend to be the people who refuse to understand that "the old way" might not be the best way to do something and also fail to produce a viable alternative.

Linux audio was not usable for end users until PulseAudio stabilised. Init based on scripts was a trash fire. And yet, although SystemD and PulseAudio aren't perfect, noone managed to produce anything comparable except pages and pages and pages of whining.

These people need to let it go. This toxicity is unhealthy and it's just damn software.

[delfinom]

The inability to let is why we also have an insane number of distros that continue to fragment Linux. While diversity of ideas is good, it kills user adoption by anything other than techies.

[giancarlostoro]

On the other hand it indirectly educates people as to how modular a Linux distribution can be.