The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.