"That's not a "pop-opinion". The popular opinion is exactly the opposite: microkernels are mostly a curiosity at best (if not a travesty) and monolithic kernels

"That's not a "pop-opinion". The popular opinion is exactly the opposite: microkernels are mostly a curiosity at best (if not a travesty) and monolithic kernels do 99.99% of what you want." Nope, I'd say the pop opinion is against anything that is described as "monolithic". The word "monolithic" itself is pretty much a pejorative in most circles these days. "You're blinded by your microkernel hatred." You're unbelievable. Clearly you must know me better than myself. "It isn't meant to reinforce such an argument." That was the whole point of the thread. That was your original principal statement (or implication anyway) which I took issue with. "Damage control." What damage?! "Those damned quotes from those damned academics, they don't mean a thing!" Those damned results from damned reality... If there's one thing I would be certain of about microkernels, it's that someone would be able to collect a lot of quotes from academics supporting them. "(Anyway, it's unsurprising to see you have no concrete rebuttal whatsoever" No! I am not going to spend hours assembling dogma! I have real things to do! "have to resort to deflecting" Look buddy, you're the only one who has made personal attacks and assume all kinds of things about me like this weird "hatred" thing and that I care about GitHub stars (wtf?). Though I'm glad I seem to have ruined your xmas period with my few comments to the point you've spent time assembling a long page of things that have been said before which completely miss my point.