> Well, yeah but also at this time Linux had not even been around half a decade. Ah, yes, good point! > My thought was more that maybe a lot of the issues peo

> Well, yeah but also at this time Linux had not even been around half a decade. Ah, yes, good point! > My thought was more that maybe a lot of the issues people are having with Linux to push them to BSD is what we, developers collectively, have done to Linux over the last 2-3 decades. Indeed so. Especially in the last decade or so: snap, Flatpak, Wayland, systemd, etc. It's being made gratuitously more and more complex to meet the demands of the main commercial users -- running cloud servers -- even if this makes like much more complicated for individual users. Which is why I advocate the BSDs as an alternative, but man, they are all forbidding and offputting to beginners/novices, and some of them don't even realise why and how.