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0 pointsbombcar6mo ago0 comments

This is downvoted, but it's true.

It doesn't matter who's fault it is in some Aristotelean sense, what matters is the user upgraded to YOUR new OS, and now shit don't work.

Raymond Chen and Microsoft got this, years ago. Joel talked about it. You make shit work, even if it's the software being a fuck.

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sgerenser6mo ago

Or, as some OS maintainer once said: WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP.

aw16211076mo ago

This situation seems to be more analogous to an out-of-tree driver which reaches into kernel internals, which Linux does break all the time.

mrheosuper6mo ago

if the out-of-tree driver does not touch kernel space, it should not be broken.

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kridsdale36mo ago

No time to do that when you need to re-do the entire UI of 100 apps for no good reason other than to make an iMac indistinguishable from an iPad.

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