After 30+ years of command-line worship, ritual reboots, and arguing over init systems, we can finally say it: Linux is obsolete.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.
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