The whole argument is non-sensical. "Its not some broken piece of shit" or "it doesn't suck" are meaningless unless you give us what "piece of shit" or "sucking" really is. "Linux" isn't even clarified so is this just talking about the kernel and implying that other os kernels provide definitions of "sucking" and "piece of shit"? *BSD certainly provide good kernels that don't suck and aren't "pieces of shit". Is it talking about full blown operating systems? That's not clear either... I'll just stop.
And it's for those exact reasons that I have no problem with Windows Server, or Windows 7, or Visual Studio when doing native development. Oh, and the apps I care about? Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix? Those just work.<p>That's the real reason I use Windows when I'm not screwing around in server land.<p>For certain things, sure, the shell and OS model beat Windows hand down--but it's hardly a broken thing.<p>OSX can go eat a duck, though.
No doubt that Linux - the kernel - is one of the best open source project ever happened. Linux - the OS, the user space - is another story. The user space things of Linux based OS are bloated and just pain to work with. Everybody is fighting about different set of tools in this space and nothing is coherent and that's why there never was Linux desktop year and never will be.
HN is turning into reddit. I've seen this exact picture on reddit and /g/. If you want to post stuff like this, please take it there and leave us some interesting articles, a neat personal project, or recent tech news. Just not a fork bomb with a single, quasi-motivational set of sentences below it.<p>It's a good message, but this format really isn't something applicable to HN.
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is a "fork bomb" booby trap. Do NOT enter that set of characters in a CLI.