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Comment by HexDecOctBin

8 days ago

> Because what's at question in this case is the actual impact size, which to me seems quite limited.

It was widely covered in media. Some of the most popular games and software broke:

1. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-glibc-2-41-update-...

2. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack

This is the attitude that will always prevent GNU/Linux from becoming prevalent for personal computing. There is a such a lack of empathy for users' hardships and it shows.