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by Teknoman117 129 days ago
As someone who works in the datacenter hardware / system software space who does robotics as a hobby - the craziest thing to me about ROS is how tied it is to Linux and how Linux-illiterate half the people using it seem to be.

It was like pulling teeth trying to explain to someone that they couldn’t use the Linux GPIO subsystem from python to accurately measure sub-millisecond events…

Linux is a general purpose OS, it’s typically tuned for throughput not precise timing. Sure there’s PREMPT_RT but it only buys you so much.