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Absolute trash.
Outside of the holier than thou attitude there is just such a lack of understanding why other people may want certain features.
The following is all being written by someone in their early 30s.
Stable builds? On my personal machines I use openSUSE to get my new features and software, but for my work I use stable systems. Down time costs me money, there is no way I would ever trust my enterprise solutions on a non stable distro. I would be asking to have my contracts terminated and lose money. My clients rely on my solutions to have as close to 100% up time as possible. I just can't trust a rolling release enough to put my income on the line for it.
What is the desire to dump perfectly good machines because they are not new enough. I wouldn't even call myself an environmentalist, but I can't stand to see the amount of perfectly good machines being eWasted because they hit an arbitrary age and are now "old". I have been using old enterprise rescue machines for years. My current laptop is nearly 8 years old. It has 20gb of Ram and a 512gb sata 3 ssd. It isn't playing any games, but it is more than capable to accomplish all of the dev work that comes my way, and lots of other media work too. I have a more recent desktop, but even then I usually run my desktop hardware for 7-10 years and just upgrade the pieces that need it and migrate those old pieces to my servers.
I also keep some old 1gb or less RAM machines around because it is just fun to work within limitations and have distraction free machines for completing non cpu intensive workloads. I even keep an old iBook around for the fun of playing with old powerPC chips and really challenging myself to make software that is modern but functions on extremely dated and limited specs.
And I managed to say all of that without saying "fuck" one time. Imagine that.
Edit: read more blog posts. It has to either be a troll or a child. I refuse to believe an adult writes such absolute trash. I was less edgy when I was 13. I cannot imagine any self respecting adult writing like that. If this is an adult, then I am getting "middle aged woman that also writes weird erotic fan fiction about teenage characters" vibes.
I could write articles without swearing, but that is lame. Thank you for saying I'm in my early 30s :)
I use Debian on servers, and if you noticed, I don't really say shit about servers. Why would anyone run a GUI, wayland, pipewire on a server?
systemd does make sense on a server, faster boot times. Where uptime matters.
I think you misread. I am in my early 30s. I have no idea how old you are. You write like a 13-14 year old, but I'm sure you are older.
You don't say anything about servers, but you specifically call anyone wanting stable Linux a "boomer asshole" I believe. There are no caveats for servers vs standard use.
I hate to break it to you, but swearing every 3 words is probably the most lame and juvenile thing you can do.
Ok, boomer