Linux developers have no concept of any of what I just told you. Their individual elements are all ego-fetish-objects, and totems to the self barring rare exception. The Linux kernel specifically is largely free of this problem, but that required super aggressive management behavior.
If you *do* want both improvement, AND the removal of problems you need lots of human time to throw at a problem. And I mean LOTS.
What's ultimately desperately needed today is a manhatten project: One to kill the cult of UX and go back to Xerox Parc, and another which rethinks the OS conceptually to recover the genuinely obscene performance gains we see in systems like BeOS that's hardware and platform agnostic.
Nobody wants to take the risk, because to investors these are all solved problems. Nobody wants "Car 2", or "Space Shuttle 2" so they don't want "Operating System 2". The issue there is they don't realize that we are locked into tremendously bad habits which lock us out of the world.
Our desktop metaphor is trying to be paper, and robbing us of most of the force multipliers of software.
Our software has no local API or modularity, so segments of our programs cannot pass instructions to eachother in tool-chains composed of complex functions to make software *out of software* in a simple way -- even across networks of machines, exposing all functions to all as standard.
Our software is achingly inefficient top to bottom, and the ease of programming gains are marginal and could be improved upon tremendously.
Our representations are still higherarchies and ego-promoting design rather than affective or contextural or circumstantial. We don't represent the multi-threaded or simultanious or networked capabilities of our systems.
We don't have a pairity between spreadsheet representations, scripting, programming and visual programming wherein the correct metaphor can be used for the correct element of a task and linked together appropriately and interchangably.
Its not only that Linux isn't good enough, its that we need another Mother Of All Demos on a software level. We need to dump money into a fucking pit and Manhatten Project our way out of the hole we've made for ourselves so we can climb out of that fucking pit. It is only going to get worse.
I dont use overcomplex distros like Arch for these reasons. That said more people need to try the "easy" ones that pretty much have just *install this* buttons.
Counterpoint, there are lots of people who need to do real work, who want to do that real work with that "easy" access. Again, I do not want to wipe the crying nappy ass of a developer who ooo shiny new thing and flitted off abandoning the one usable tool for a problem.
At least on Windows, paid vendors are building tools, and those tools come with most of their problems solved not a perfect level, but a complete level -- and I have 30 years of those complete and reliable tools to choose from, none of which are going to need a nappy change in the console.
100%, looking at several projects (desktop environments, large toolkits, even the window server!) reveals a mess of egos and "code vibes" (not the AI kind, but "programming" as an aesthetic)
I myself am exactly guilty of this in my own personal projects. Despite being a Windows user, I am sat behind six screens, and a second machine with another two, two phones on vesa arms, and a tablet, and a TV. I do have a split keyboard. And a speedbad. And a MIDI input. And a Spacemouse.
There absoloutely is an ego fetishistic component to this.
so you have a complete model of "Linux developers" 🤔 iv head about these types of deviant before www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0...
No, I have a "perfect, but incomplete" model (in the mathematical sense, not the real sense) Perfect because its highly studied Incomplete because it is obviously subjective with a limited sample-size. I recognize I make a golem in my mind of a group of people, and the risk of that golem.
Do not yourself make the golem I specifically avoid while insisting you are better than me. If you want to be better than me, you must yourself not do the thing you accuse me of that I am actually specifically mindful of.
If you take offense to what I've said, please understand I have no special connection to Windows, just the tools I am using -- just as I did with NexTSTEP, just as I did with NetBSD, just as I did with AMSDOS. I go where my tools are. When my tools are on Linux reliably, I am happy to go there.