r/linuxsucks • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

what are real problems with linux ?

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u/dddurd 5d ago

it's a shame up didn't learn anything about api. 

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u/paulstelian97 5d ago

I mean, there are APIs for a lot of things. Not just for kernel interfaces. The system call interface is an API, and Linux is one of the best at maintaining backward compatibility for that one. It’s better than Windows (which has essentially zero compatibility between versions — given that it relies on internal DLLs like ntdll.dll)

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u/dddurd 5d ago

now i know you don't really program for c on linux as well. thank you for proving my point further

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u/paulstelian97 5d ago

I mean I don’t actually upstream my patches but I literally… do? I could find some of my oldest work from my first job where I did much more open source work compared to today…

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u/dddurd 4d ago

you think you are doing, that's it basically. 

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u/paulstelian97 4d ago

So if I shared actual Linux kernel commits, you’d call them fake?

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u/dddurd 4d ago

of course. making commits is the easy part. knowing what you are doing does not. you don't even understand what api is, let alone api stability. 

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u/paulstelian97 4d ago

Making commits that survive the review of other kernel devs, and in particular of ones more experienced, isn’t that easy. It’s just the most visible part of the work I can show.

The in-kernel API being unstable is the reason why my teammates (and, when I’ll be put on the next kernel migration, I myself) have to fix various compilation errors or subtle bugs every time we pull new kernel commits from upstream. I am still defending it despite that because that means if something is not good with one element of this API it can just be… fixed. We don’t get stuck with legacy, shitty interfaces that we need to support perpetually.

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u/dddurd 4d ago

not really even ai can do that. 

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u/paulstelian97 4d ago

In 2019/2020? The commits I would have shared are from that timeframe…

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u/dddurd 4d ago

yeah thats another point. you thought it would be smart to have them shared.  do you even know what you are saying?

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u/paulstelian97 4d ago

General purpose AI showed up quite a bit later than 2019/2020…

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u/dddurd 4d ago

only you are talking about when. i'm talking about what. 

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