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> I know Linus has a "don't break userland" theory which causes some of the above And the worst part, Linux actually breaks userland _way_ more often than any

> I know Linus has a "don't break userland" theory which causes some of the above And the worst part, Linux actually breaks userland _way_ more often than any of the *BSDs... "Moving what should have been dev nodes to sysfs since 2010 (TM), then reorganizing sysfs every couple years..."

bombcar 5y ago
This is where the *BSD trees including the kernel and the distribution also helps - they can keep the “user interface” the same while still updating everything. Linux seems to have to create a new way of doing something because there’s no guarantee they can get the distributions to update the tooling.