Re: “End Of 10” Project

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:19:50 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

To be fair, I don't think I've ever heard Mr. Torvalds knocking other
OSs ...

From <https://www.tamos.net/ieee/linus.html>:

    What's [sic] do you hate about Windows 95?

    Torvalds: What's fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any
    taste when they did it. Microsoft has been very much into making
    the user interface look good, but internally it's just a complete
    mess.

    What about Windows NT?

    Torvalds: NT isn't much better. It tries to be secure and tries to
    do things basically the right way, but at the same time NT too
    doesn't really have any guiding principles in life.

    The only guiding principle is it tries to be more stable than
    Windows, which is not saying much. Plus, it tries to make money
    which includes running Windows programs. But again, it doesn't
    have any core philosophy and because it doesn't have that people
    aren't thinking when they do any coding on Windows NT, they aren't
    thinking "Is this a really good idea or should I do it some other
    way?" because they don't have any guidelines on how things should
    be done. So they're just adding things, on top of each other and
    hoping that the end result is stable instead of trying to really
    build up a very stable base that everybody can depend on.

Prophetic words, don’t you think, considering the interview is from
the last century ...