I agree with you but I feel like that isn't specific to Linux as an OS. Windows and Mac both have a kernel responsible for keeping processes ticking in an infin

I agree with you but I feel like that isn't specific to Linux as an OS. Windows and Mac both have a kernel responsible for keeping processes ticking in an infinite loop (scheduling executing across threads) as well. I think the original comment I was responding to was about the complications of Linux. To me... the complications of Linux aren't really in the 20+ years of "tech debt" that is "just make it boot and work for x86_64 like it used to work for i386", but moreso the 20-30 different configuration files and formats that happen after boot.