Comment by raverbashing
19 hours ago
Let's be honest
Linux (and its ecosystem) sucks at having focus and direction.
They might get something right here and there, especially related to servers, but they are awful at not spinning wheels
See how wayland progress is slow. See how some distros moved to it only after a lot of kicking and screaming.
See how a lot of peripherals in "newer" (sometimes a model that's 2 or 3 yrs on the market) only barely works in a newer distro. Or has weird bugs
"but the manufacturers..." "but the hw producers..." "but open source..." whine
Because Linux lacks a good hierarchy at isolating responsibility, otherwise going for a "every kernel driver can do all it wants" together with "interfaces that keep flipping and flopping at every new kernel release" - notable (good) exception : USB userspace drivers. And don't even get me started on the whole mess that is xorg drivers
And then you have a Ruby Goldberg machine in form of udev dbus and what not, or whatever newer solution that solves half the problems and create another new collection of bugs.
Honestly I can't see it remaining tenable to keep things like drivers in the kernel for too much longer… both due to the sheer speed at the industry moves and due to the security implications involved.