I think Linus generally has well reasoned technical opinions. I find it a little unusual that you decided to communicate that it's rare that you agree with him.
I think it's much more common to say his communication style has problems. I think he has really good intuition on technical stuff.
This is not to say Linux or Linus are perfect, but you can usually pick out certain of his opinions and find them to be pretty grounded.
I guess looking at your user info you like BSD? I like *BSD better than Linux. But it's not due to personal feelings about Linus, and I respect his talents and good eye for a lot of technical things.
Yep, been using FreeBSD on the Desktop since 1996.
I've used Linux for plenty of things, but I tend not to unless I need something thats written specifically for Linux.
There's very little I need Linux itself for.
My issues with Linus were a few design decisions, how stuff gets into the kernel, how the distributions work, how things are poorly tested/etc.
Sadly now that FreeBSD is using ZoL I'm encountering a bunch of problems related to that :(
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I think Linus generally has well reasoned technical opinions. I find it a little unusual that you decided to communicate that it's rare that you agree with him.
I think it's much more common to say his communication style has problems. I think he has really good intuition on technical stuff.
This is not to say Linux or Linus are perfect, but you can usually pick out certain of his opinions and find them to be pretty grounded.
Linus is why I generally don't use Linux unless I absolutely have to.
I guess looking at your user info you like BSD? I like *BSD better than Linux. But it's not due to personal feelings about Linus, and I respect his talents and good eye for a lot of technical things.
Yep, been using FreeBSD on the Desktop since 1996. I've used Linux for plenty of things, but I tend not to unless I need something thats written specifically for Linux. There's very little I need Linux itself for. My issues with Linus were a few design decisions, how stuff gets into the kernel, how the distributions work, how things are poorly tested/etc.
Sadly now that FreeBSD is using ZoL I'm encountering a bunch of problems related to that :(