The Downfall of Linux

Everything that goes up, must come down ~ Anon.

It has been the year of the Linux for the past consecutive decade.
And what improvements have been made?

Peak Linux existed 10 years ago.
I’m not talking about the Kernel. I’m referring to the distros. GNU Linux as they like to call it. Or whatever spicy sh!t they call it now.

10 years ago, when I used Linux, I was interested in checking out new distros.
I loved Linux. It was beautiful. It was exciting. It was interesting. It captured my attention.

What’s going on with Linux now?
Bloat.
The same sh!t that pushed users away from Windows is now affecting Linux.
It has been affecting Linux for a while now. But I’ll be the one to call it out now.
If it was just one distro that was affected, I wouldn’t mind.
No, it’s all of them.

Now I’m not on top of the latest Linux news. I’m not a Linux nerd. I’m not a fanboy.
I’m an end user with a very specific requirement.

For the past decade, Linux developers have been taking away the good things, and bringing in the bad things.
Here’s an Anon theory: Have Linux developers been bought by Microsoft and other corporate entities? Is that where they’re getting their crappy development ideas from?

X11 is dead. Why is X11 dead? I don’t know.
The majority of Linux distributions have defaulted to Wayland.
Wayland SVCKS!

Here’s an important announcement from Solus:

With Budgie 10.10, coming to Solus very soon, Budgie will no longer support X11 at all, and will be Wayland only!

Solus was a beautiful distro in 2016.
It was so beautiful and aesthetic and unique, that I stopped switching to Windows permanently.
I banned all Windows-only tasks. I ran Linux exclusively. If I could do it on Linux, we were solid. If I couldn’t, everyone could fvck off!

What is Solus now? An empty shell of what it used to be. With one terrible design change after another, introducing more bugs while copying what other distros were doing, trying to fit in and become mainstream. Solus OS has not graced my laptops in the past 5 years.
And that’s just one example of a beautiful Linux distro gone down the sh!tter.

Show me a distro, and I will tell you exactly how cr^ppy it is.

I’m not a hater.
I’m just a realist.

Hardware requirements have gone up.
Linux used to be the OS you could install on an old piece of junk laptop and get the performance of a supercomputer.
Now, Linux will give you the same performance as Windows on a 10 year old laptop.
Modern Linux does not perform well on older hardware.
Why?
Because all the devs got new laptops and fancy desktops and that’s what they use to benchmark their distro releases.
That’s the optimistic theory.
Readers of this blog don’t have the kahunas to read the pessimistic theory. It’s much closer to the truth than they’d like. But it’ll hurt more than a gvn wound to their external sphincter muscle.

Deepin OS already integrated a ton of AI nonsense. The rest of the Linux community is waiting – salivating like a bunch of hungry dogs, ready to pounce on the AI sausage.

This is your wake-up call.
Stop d!cking around, optimize your code, remove all the bloat. Keep things fvcking simple. Stop adding stupid features that nobody gives a rat’s ^ss about.

Nobody’s here to d!ckride your distro.
Most Linux Distros absolutely fvcking svck! And that’s the cold hard truth.
When I look at the top 20 distros on Distrowatch and they make my veins pop and my blood boils, that’s a terrible mark on the Linux developer community.

Solus 1.1 was a better distro than the top 20 Linux distros today.
Even with all the bugs and incompleteness, it had life. It had a purpose. It was Linux at it’s core. It was better than Windows.

Now I look at Linux and I look at Windows, and I think – This is the same fvcking sh!t!
That’s a problem.
Somewhere along the lines of development and growth, the majority of Linux distros became corporatized and the passion projects and genuine interests were replaced with donations and paychecks.

The world cannot have nice things because humanity is a curse unto itself.