February 07, 2017 at 09:11PM
"Idealists wanted the best possible system without having to worry about backwards compatibility" #readingToday

Linux was left with idealists that wanted to design the best possible system without having to worry about boring details like support and backwards compatibility. Meanwhile, you can still run the 2001 Photoshop that came when XP was launched on Windows 8. And you can still run your old OSX apps on Mountain Lion.

True story. The hard disk that hosted my /home directory on my Linux machine failed so I had to replace it with a new one. Since this machine lives under my desk, I had to unplug all the cables, get it out, swap the hard drives and plug everything back again. Pretty standard stuff. Plug AC, plug keyboard, ...