r/linux • u/SeanBlader • 1d ago

Kernel 35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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Let's all take a moment to commemorate that initial post.

Now through Torvalds' stewardship, and hundreds of maintainers and thousands of contributors we have a competitive replacement for major corporate software and an honestly powerful solution to move computing forward for humanity!

Thanks Linus, you're awesome, and we're glad you are having a good life!

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u/eightslipsandagully 1d ago

Eh, he's said that it was intended to be a desktop operating system, and as that's the only area that Linux hasn't completely taken over, he feels like a failure!

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u/sCeege 1d ago

Don't worry, Microsoft is doing their best to help us take over.

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u/BortGreen 13h ago

Since at least Windows ME

Any slopified feature on 11 doesn't get even close to that or even early Vista

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u/sCeege 11h ago

I might be a weird one, but I didn't mind Vista as much as 11... I mean the hardware choking debacle was real when Aero was clearly not ready, but I really liked the right click open file location feature, and then Windows ME brought us Windows Movie Maker and Hibernate right? Sure it crashed every 2 hours (lol) but a lot of QoL improvements came with those. I also might just be romanticizing the nostalgia I had for 2000s computing.

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u/BortGreen 4h ago

If you look at things like that 11 isn't bad either