Alright, let's just say what everyone with a functioning brain (and not a shrine to Richard Stallman in their basement) already knows: Linux is a dead OS walking. And frankly, it's about time we stopped pretending otherwise.
Every year, it's the same song and dance. "This is the year of the Linux desktop!" Yeah, right. For who? The same ten guys who still think Gentoo compilation times are a badge of honor, and whose social lives consist solely of IRC channels dedicated to obscure kernel modules?

Let's be real. In a world where macOS just works and Windows, for all its faults, dominates literally everything that matters – gaming, professional software, hardware compatibility – what's left for Linux? A handful of servers nobody ever sees, and the desktops of people who enjoy pain.

The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has been happening since 1998, and guess what? We're still waiting. While the rest of us are playing AAA games, running Adobe Creative Suite, or just, you know, getting work done without compiling drivers, the Linux faithful are still troubleshooting Xorg, wrestling with Wayland, and bragging about how many lines of configuration they've memorized.

And don't even get me started on the community. It's a toxic cesspool of self-righteousness, gatekeeping, and "RTFM" responses from people who clearly have more time than sense. If you're not already a grey-bearded guru who built his first kernel from scratch on a 386, prepare to be shunned.

So, yeah. Linux. It's a dead end for anyone who actually wants to be productive, enjoy modern computing, or interact with people who shower regularly. It's an OS by neckbeards, for neckbeards, and the only thing it's winning is the award for most irrelevant platform in 2025. Time to unplug that ancient server, shave that neckbeard, and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Flame on, freetards. You know I'm right.

(AI-generated because I have better things to do)

Why? A DoD job is just that, a job. I've done contract work in the defence sector, never felt ashamed on my way to the bank. The pay well and they pay on time. Even the NDAs are less ponderous than those in the private sector. Having to scavenge for your lunch from a dumpster, that would be embarassing, but not working for the DoD. Did they use my work to kill people? Maybe. I don't care.

Well, it's just your fault: you eat shitty food, you don't work out, you are a repellent sweaty fatso that can barely move on your thick stubby legs while your obscenely obese carcass, pale skin dripping with sweat and encrusted with potato chips crumbles shifts around in a grotesque imitation of wavelets on a mosquito-infested bog. Now and then one of the yellowish pustules that cover your diseased epidermis bursts and adds its infested load of filth to the puddles of malodorous sweat you leave on the floor like the trail of some abhuman bipedal snail. And you're not even 30.

Distribution is everything. There are people (or now mostly AIs) who prowl the interwebz for interesting IP that could be monetized. As it is now, they locate the author and work out a price.

There are interesting ideas that could be the basis for lucrative productions. At the moment the author stand to gain something. The shitboy's proposal would earn the author nothing. This is all right if you're a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch. Are you a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch? Do you furiously masturbate in a fetid pile of your own stale feces thinking of how much of a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch you are?

Have you considered suicide? Because you should.

Experimental proof or nothing. And you can do it only once.

Ok, so 7 years after you wrote a novel on WattPad that had a little following a major studio can step in, make a movie out of your novel, earn billions and if you ask for a penny they can shit on your face? Just a hypothetic scenario of course, you couldn't form a sentence to save your life.

"AI" is a term that has long lost its original meaning. Aside from researchers, nobody really cares if "AI" is intelligent, what we care about is the results and those are very, very interesting. AI allows (with some caveat) to produce in minutes research and reports that would have taken hours if not days of work.

Granted, you have to check but you would have had to check with humans doing the heavy lifting - actually even more so. One could be pedantic and scream and holler foaming at the mouth that AI is not truly "intelligent" but so what? It's a term, it lost its original meaning pretty much like "hacker" did. Get over it. It means what it now means. It will be used again when a new technology that surpasses the current model comes about.

In the meantime, management has read the writing on the wall and has been downsizing and allocating resources more efficiently. A lot of departments that were tasked with generating reports and forecasts are being slashed to the bone: you don't need 20 people when it takes 2 persons. Yes, we will still have humans at the helm, just not that many. Competition in the job market is going to be very, very intense in the next years.

As for coders, AI can churn out code better than 99% of code-monkeys. In this case too we'll always have "star" programmers, but not everybody is going to be one. The rest will be sliced away like so much excess fat.

If you don't have REAL talent in this brave new AI-powered world, you may as well take a dive from the nearest tall building.

You can say "crewed". If it gets cancelled add an "s" at the beginning.

Louis XVI couldn't order a drone strike on those Bastille domestic terrorists or arrest and imprison their leaders after wiretapping their communications.

If Canada ever joined the EU it would be good in the long term for the US: Canada would weigh more politically and economically speaking than the usual eurobullies, France and Germany. This would cause more unrest within the EU, more forced decentralization (as little faith as I have in canadiots, they wouldn't accept to be ruled by any euro von scheisse) and US influence could be exerted with far more force. The US has nothing to fear from the EU, they're not a threat. We can end their economy with very little effort and they know it.

They started it. Don't want to get burned? Don't play with fire. It's a shame civvies get offed but there ain't no such thing as a "clean" war. Maybe the Falklands (and even there 3 women got accidentally killed by a shell). However both sides played it very fairly, a rarity in these cases. The US didn't start out with the intention of killing the whole population of North Korea just as they didn't go into WW2 with the intention to kill the whole population of Japan. It's simply a lamentable side-effect. There is a way to avoid it: do not go to war with the US or its allies. It's that simple, really.

That's irrelevant. What you think is irrelevant. YOU are irrelevant. What is relevant is the official Federation Aeronautique Internationale that puts the Karman Line at 100 km above sea level and that is accepted by everyone. Everyone that matters, obviously, and that does not include you. The Karman line by the way does not define the limits of the atmosphere, but rather where the atmosphere is no longer a factor in flight control. Got it, loserboy? The world has farted in your face once again. Breathe in deep, it's the smell of your abject failure haunting you day by day.

We did the same in high school. Except we used geeks' heads instead of stones.

After 30+ years of command-line worship, ritual reboots, and arguing over init systems, we can finally say it: Linux is obsolete. Not in the future. Now. The year is 2025 and the desktop year still hasn't arrived. It turns out the only thing Linux ever ruled was a sea of broken Wi-Fi drivers and Stack Overflow posts from 2011.

Let’s be honest: the kernel is bloated, the ecosystem is fractured, and your average distro update breaks more than it fixes. If I wanted that kind of experience, I’d use Windows ME on a toaster.

And while the neckbeard collective was still debating Wayland vs. X11 (spoiler: they both suck), AI quietly took over software development. Copilot, ChatGPT, whatever—they now write better, faster, and cleaner code than 90% of open-source maintainers. Including you. Yes, you, the guy who hasn't merged a PR since 2019 because "code style violations."

But I’m just getting warmed up.

Let's talk about Emacs. Oh, Emacs. The "operating system that just happens to edit text." If I wanted to write C, send email, and manage a calendar from the same window, I'd just go back to the 1970s and use a teletype. You don’t look smart using Emacs—you look like you’re doing cosplay as a 1984 UNIX intern. Bonus points if you're using Org Mode to plan your next Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Meanwhile, Vim users? You're not off the hook. You're just speedrunning Stockholm Syndrome with a text editor that makes quitting harder than quitting heroin.

Let’s not forget the Free Software Foundation, which is still waging a holy war against anything with a permissive license. RMS may have written some good code in the 80s, but so did the people who made MS-DOS. Time to move on.

And don’t even get me started on BSD. The only people who use it are router manufacturers and ghost ships from SourceForge.

So yes—it's over. The golden era of open-source purity is done. AI tools generate better code, maintain it without whining about tabs vs. spaces, and don’t require arcane rituals to install a graphics driver.

The future isn’t Linux. It isn’t Emacs. It’s not even you. It’s neural networks cranking out full-stack apps while you’re still compiling your kernel for support for a touchpad that came out in 2014.

Discuss. Or don't. AI is already writing the rebuttal.

---

(Nothing like using AI to smear poop on nerds' faces)

They haven't managed to build a functional web economy and industry in 30 years and you expect them to do it now? They haven't not because they won't, but because they can't. The EU is strongly adverse - if not altogether inimical - to disruptive innovation. Things must remain as they are. People are encouraged to fit in and not make waves and you know what? The average euro is fine with that. The less interesting their lives are, the better. Too bad that if you want to pose as a world power this is an incredibly stupid attitude.