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> Sometimes stifling innovation in UX. How does the Linux kernel maintaining backward compatibility stiffle UX innovation?

• dijit 11mo ago
  You’re probably thinking of UX as being user interfaces and desktop environments. But sometimes a user is an api consumer. There’s plenty of horrible kernel functions with footguns in Linux, but they won’t be improved due to “never break userspace” theres lots if examples if you need specifics. readdir, epoll, futumesat (and ufutumesat), etc.