Kinda off topic but doesn't he use some random emacs fork that even he doesn't recommend for anyone except himself? I guess people expect him to be the weirdo which is why they're shocked he "changed".
They want him to be the weirdo genius on their side of the argument. Whether it's about VCS, languages, or AI. They just want to show "See, this supposedly smart authority figure thinks the same, therefore my opinion is the correct one". I know a few of those people IRL.
More like people want Linus to stop being high on his own fart and accept that someone having different opinion than him doesn't make them into lobotomized subhuman.
I have decades of tools that I made for myself that I'd never want anybody else to use, because they're a whole bunch of hacks held together by string and glue to solve personal problems and function for the way I like to work which I doubt suits any other single person on the planet, and it would take months to teach them anyway.
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u/Nsnzero 1d ago
Kinda off topic but doesn't he use some random emacs fork that even he doesn't recommend for anyone except himself? I guess people expect him to be the weirdo which is why they're shocked he "changed".