From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:20:04 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > And gnome is pretty precarious under Linux in spite of a huge amount   
   > of effort being expended on it. It's fine if you want everything   
   > completely default, but if you want any changes then things start   
   > going wrong. And if they didn't go wrong today, they will tomorrow   
   > when you install the mandatory update because the way you make that   
   > change is different now.   
      
   GNOME is not designed to be very customizable: you are supposed to use   
   it as designed.   
      
   If you want a customizable UI, there are other more versatile options,   
   like KDE Plasma.   
      
   > BSD pretty much follows the Unix philosophy of making everything as   
   > modular as possible ...   
      
   It’s the opposite, really. Linux distros are made out of lots of   
   modular pieces, while BSDs are constructed out of large, monolithic   
   blobs of code.   
      
   > ... the argument can be made that Linux has devolved very far from   
   > the Unix philosophy, while the BSD variants have mostly kept to the   
   > Unix philosophy.   
      
   If you are thinking of the hoary old cliché of “do one thing and do it   
   well”, note that the modular Linux kernel is a much closer adherent of   
   the “Unix philosophy” than any BSD can manage.   
      
   > There is nothing more horrible and hellish that I could imagine than   
   > being wrapped up inside Kubernetes + Docker + systemd. I agree that   
   > everyone is moving in that direction and as someone who cares about   
   > computers actually being reliable I find this terrifying.   
      
   Even the BSDs, it seems, want to move in that direction.   
      
   Thankfully, on Linux itself, because of its modularity, you have many   
   other options besides that particular stack.   
      
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