write programs that do one thing well
(but to make things easier feel free to require build-time dependencies on small parts of multiple large monolithic code bases, don't forget to throw in at least 2 meta-build systems that require interpreting configure scripts in 2 different runtimes)
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, I pick a mainline linux distro with wayland and systemd, get on with my life; believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - we stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep this rabbit hole goes.
@sarahjamielewis i don't believe in scarcity model
@sarahjamielewis Wayland and systemd just… bug me. Curious where you go without them. (I ended up running netbsd)
@wavefunction @sarahjamielewis My two go-to examples of large-scale failures of social architecture in F/OSS
In Linuxworld, you get offered the purple pill, too.
@sarahjamielewis You’ve made me realize that a lot of the distinctions in the section headers are 20th-Century artifacts.
@sarahjamielewis
Exciting! I enjoyed your framing of how an OS can be defined.