[vishnu]

I think the biggest issue with GNU/Linux in 2023 air the following:

1. No clear separation between base and installed products. Everything goes into /usr/bin, separations of /bin (nonprivileged commands) and /sbin (privileged commands) it's basically out the window. This ends up creating a mess that package managers, while pretty smart, sometimes end up breaking libraries and entering dependency hell that leads to unintentionally installing kernels of glibc or other major components. FreeBSD is unfortunately moving this way, which is why I left it for new installs.

2. Nobody has agreed on a unified way to manage configuration formats. I'm okay with this being the case for software that is not in base but for software that is, it's kinda unacceptable. This issue is also in the BSDs, to a lesser extent.

3. Security policy that is more focused on burying vulnerable programs under multiple layers rather than just not using vulnerable programs in the first place. I'm not some type of purist to the level that openbsd is, but I do agree with them in the respect that vulnerable software should be patched or removed and not simply dragged along kicking and screaming.

That's why I'm running Slackware with MWM as my window manager and a kernel I compiled myself that only has support for my hardware and I do NOT compile any modules, everything goes into the binary. No bloat, no cruft, and Slackware doesn't have systemd (at least up to now).