"A lot of Linux software isn't very intrinsically robust" Yet you will almost certainly have something Linux running in your home somewhere. Obviously, I am ma

"A lot of Linux software isn't very intrinsically robust" Yet you will almost certainly have something Linux running in your home somewhere. Obviously, I am making quite an assumption here with regards what OSs run in your home, but Linux powers way more stuff than any other OS on the planet by a massive margin. Your casual dismissal of Linux misses several points. Linux is just a kernel - 'tis what boots and stuff. Statically typed bollockary doesn't even feature at this level, yet we have some wondrous stuff on display. We get eBPF to play with for fiddling quite unceremoniously with network packets and much, much, more. We have way more file systems than you can count ... OK put your socks back on. We have multiple schedulers and way more firewalling systems than is reasonable. nft looks like it might be quite useful. It's the fourth one I've dealt with (ipfw, ipchains, iptables) so it should work out. That's the kernel alone - 1000s of devs working on it - way more than any other OS kernel. There are multiple stable WMs, GUIs and whatever. I've stuck with KDE since a shaky self compile of 2.0 a fair few years ago. Linux runs quite a bit of your life somewhere even if it's only your telly.