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> Despite being centered around technology, a very vocal part of the Linux community seems to be extremely conservative. A working system calls for a conservat
by gopher_space 5y ago
> Despite being centered around technology, a very vocal part of the Linux community seems to be extremely conservative.
A working system calls for a conservative viewpoint. I'm only looking to introduce change if my needs aren't being met.
- derefr 5y agoMy understanding is that, by volume, most people using Linux "in anger" (whose needs mostly dictate the direction of Linux development) aren't the SREs maintaining living systems for years at a time; rather, they're the DevOps people with constant streams of greenfield projects, involving half-baked third-party components, that in turn need all sorts of random bleeding-edge dependencies.