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1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 10:00:42 JST 寮
   Not true, Unix was designed to be simple.
   Linux on the other hand got so much complexity added over the many years, I'd rather say it got further away from Unix than ever (even though Linux isn't actually Unix, it's Unix-like).
   I can understand the kernel adding support for so much hardware that didn't even exist yet in the 1970s and 1980s, that's totally OK.
   
   The problem is rather things like Snaps/Soypaks/PIP/NPM/Composer/Cargo/whatever, SoystemD, Apache (and now nginx too), PostgreSQL, Waycope, frameworks for programming languages, Gnome/KDE, and so many other stuff that get more and more crapware forced into Linux that unnecessarily add layers upon layers of complexity and an ever taller wall of abstraction between user and machine, no way I can even consider Linux to be Unix-like.
   
   https://youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=KQumYOeN94I
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 12:34:30 JST Terminal Autism

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     Well, at least it's still Unix-like in all the bad ways, so people on Reddit can still use bad programs to LARP and pretend that they are working at AT&T in the 70s. Clearly, the most important part. The really noticeable parts still work like Unix. Still the same horrible shells (possibly the worst languages ever made, I may prefer Brainfuck) and terminals, horrible graphics, lack of extensibility, horrendously clunky tools, inconsistent design, and of course, an actual opposition to even designing things at all.
     
     And really, deep down, it's still early 70s technology that was already obsolete even then. Still a glorified typewriter. I'm surprised that people aren't still using punchcards. Basically no progress at all has been made in these 50 years of computing, things only got bigger and messier. Lessons have been learned, but pretty much universally ignored.
     
     The only way to fix computing is to nuke it and start from scratch. Maybe the next Carrington event can take care of that. And we'll probably be better off with OSs descending from CollapseOS than OSs descending from Unix. Or from a reinvented Commodore 64 that runs Lisp or Forth, that would be a better start too.
     
     Anyway, humanity would just fuck it up again, it's what it always does with its demiurgic powers.