Been running Gentoo for over 20 years. It's as (un)stable now as it was then. It definitely has not regressed in the last N years. I don't see this as a GNU/Li

Been running Gentoo for over 20 years. It's as (un)stable now as it was then. It definitely has not regressed in the last N years. I don't see this as a GNU/Linux problem, but a distro problem. Regarding shared libraries: What do you do when a commonly used library has a security vulnerability? Force every single package that depends on it to be recompiled? Who's going to do that work? If I maintain a package and one of its dependencies is updated, I only need to check that the update is backward compatible and move on. You've now put a huge amount of work on my plate with static compilation. Finally: What does shared libraries have to do with GNU/Linux? I don't think it's a fundamental part of either. If I make a distro tomorrow that is all statically compiled, no one will come after me and tell me not to refer to it as GNU/Linux. This is an orthogonal concern.