Post #3885211
2026-07-17 08:15 UTC
And I’m sorry to say but Linux itself has been a disaster for OS research and development. It’s 2026, and all we have to show for it is a clone of Unix, an utterly unremarkable early minicomputer OS, a design old enough to be my parent. If LLMs are so great, where’s the new interesting work? Where’s the groundbreaking new kernels? This field is an absolute joke sometimes.
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@mdfranz@infosec.exchange 2026-07-18 22:58
@kevin@fedi.kbg.sh I have a usable performant Linux Desktop and browser (a 16 GB ARM ChromeBook with close to 10 hours battery life) who cares about R&D?
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-19 00:08
@kevin@fedi.kbg.sh gawd someone says it. obviously the technical challenges to supporting all practical hardware are substantial but given how cutting-edge the computer programming field is supposed to be, there's an appalling degree of stagnation