[vishnu]

My thing is - I want to learn new and more advanced things. Every time I need to go back and relearn some basic syntax or rewrite stuff... I get mad.

Just got mad a Microsoft's Docker SQL Server image. They don't have their sqlcmd management utility in PATH (no idea why), and they changed it from /opt/mysql-tools/bin to /opt/mysql-tools18/bin... like... WHY??? and I just pulled newer image for same 2022 release.

And Linux is pretty much the same thing. Every time automation breaks or I need hacks like "find" to see where things are supposed to be, I get mad.
So far, I have never had the same problem with freebsd.

Others here will prefer other BSDs, like NetBSD or OpenBSD. But all will agree that Linux is not great...

Without the power that Linus has over Linux, fragmentation will get even worse. Just like with old UNIX. If Pottering takes over, the Windowzification of Linux will be complete.

Very interesting about Drew Gallatin. I didn't know.
The governance model of the BSD distros seems to be way more rational and stable than Linux, and I've been enjoying proper documentation and release notes, and the fact that I can plan migrations and updates without fearing the house will catch fire.

Actually, it is very satisfying to plan big activities and expect that things will go according to plan!

So wait, you're saying that Windows doesn't have symbolic links? I don't know anything about Windows, but symbolic links have always been the Unix solution to that kind of "can't find the binary" problem. And wasn't Posix supposed to save us from all that incompatibility hell? I don't know any of the specifics, not an IEEE member, and they charge up the wazoo if you want access to their standards. But the Linux mantra has always been "if something's different, blame Posix not us." And Linux kind of puts the lie to the whole "first to market wins the day," if anything compared to the BSDs and commercial Unix, Linux was last to the game. But then the argument has always been that BSD lost the game because of the lawsuits that came out of the original AT&T license that stopped them in their tracks for a couple of years, while Linux was forging ahead (and GNU Mach was stuck where it's always been, which is nowhere,) and commercial Unix was still thinking they had the keys to Fort Knox...